title: Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection
author:  John Man 
description: Man posits that this engrossing book is the result of his ambition to travel to somewhere remote, and that Mongolia, China, and the Gobi Desert are such places. He maintains that secrecy is an important theme of the book: how and where Genghis Khan died, and how and where he was buried. Man chronicles the early history of Mongolia, the coming of the Mongols' conquests of China and other Asian kingdoms, and what he calls the Muslim holocaust. He cites that "there were 100,000 to 150,000 soldiers, each with two or three horses . . . they could cover 100 kilometers a day, cross deserts, swim rivers, and materialize and vanish as if by magic." He says that prisoners had a triple use: as a slave labor force of specialist artisans, as soldiers in the army's nonnomadic contingents, and as "cannon fodder." Genghis Khan fell seriously ill, perhaps with typhus, and died in 1227, and not much is certain about his burial site; the record is, according to the author, "infuriatingly vague." <i>George Cohen</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  # Order of the Black Sun
  
  
  ### Books 31 - 33
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Preston William Child
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Tomb of Genghis
  Khan](part0002.html#1T140-32a719c0f4d944209d19bfc926f3d8e4)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Operation Rubicon](part0024.html#MSDG0-32a719c0f4d944209d19bfc926f3d8e4)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Poseidon’s Secret](part0045.html#1AT9A0-32a719c0f4d944209d19bfc926f3d8e4)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # The Tomb of Genghis Khan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # THE CONQUEROR'S GRAVE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Genghis Khan aimed to take over the entire world—but now he was dead.
  Therefore, all of those grand strategies, those decisive victories might have
  been for nothing now. Great Khan’s empire might crumble without him, and there
  was a foreboding sense from all of his armies, his slaves, and his most
  devoted followers, that it was a real possibility. But before they could worry
  about the possible infighting o