Bones of the hills
By: by Conn Iggulden
Series: Conqueror -- bk. 3; Conqueror -- bk. 3.
Publisher: HarperCollins; Harper Collins; Harper Collins Canada
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780007201785; 9781408413678; 9780007282036
Subjects: Mongols; Kings and rulers; Fiction
Description: Genghis Khan has united the warring tribes and even taken his armies against the great cities of their oldest enemies. Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains. His emissaries are mutilated or killed; his trading gestures rebuffed. So, dividing his armies, using his sons as generals of the various divisions, he sends them out simultaneously in many directions, ranging as far as modern Iran and Iraq. As well as discovering new territories, exacting tribute from conquered peoples, laying waste the cities which resist, this policy is also a way of diffusing the rivalries between his sons and heirs and working out who should succeed the khan.