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Mother Hoelun was never ashamed or embarrassed by their hardships. When Jochi wore a dog's pelt for a cloak, because they had no fleeces and no felt and had to trade for hides and dog was cheap, none of the children felt a sense of indignity. Indignity was alien to her.' The Mongols are a people of orphans. A disastrous battle with China has left wives without husbands, children without fathers. Temujin is one of these children, impoverishe...

Jamuqa had witnessed, aged fifteen, his tribe strung up on trees. Perhaps you have to go one further.' Jamuqa is mad, and commits an atrocity in challenge of Temujin. His actions - that might have more to do with how he feels about his oath-brother - plunge the Mongols into intertribal war. Temujin's lack of an election, too, has caused controversy and a split into camps. The anti-Tchingis set find his ideas newfangled, while his foll...

Imagine you had a prophecy you're the advent of the Promised One, the Right Guide and the Champion of Light. You'd believe that, right? And if you didn't, you'd love to meet people who do." Temujin has an awkward time with the prophecy about him and he's happy to remain unknown. However, war and politics rudely intrude. Toqtoa, a shaman and a king from the Great North Forest, has watched the Mongols sink into squalor and he takes his opp...

The story of the first great tank battle, and the genesis of one of the most formidable weapons of the twentieth century.