In this volume is told the genuine true story of the first crusaders. It begins with their setting out, and it ends with the death of the last survivor. Almost a thousand years have passed since then, and the lives of these men are known to us only by the chronicles of their days. Upon these original chronicles the story in this book is based. It does not deal with the legends that grew up after the crusades. It is not history revised and re-written. It is the real firsthand account story ...

Babur was a descendant of both Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, combining nomadic warrior traditions with his twenty-year fight to retain power in Central Asia, his move to Kabul, and his strategic, hard-won battles that established the empire in India. It provides a detailed, researched account of 15th- and 16th-century Asian history, highlighting the cultural and political atmosphere. This book is considered a compelling, popular history, which brings to life the "honesty of Babur" in one of ...

The first volume The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints covers the victorious conquests of the crusaders. In this second volume The Crusades: The Flame of Islam, we have an historical accounting of Saladin and his Muslim invasion to take back the Holy Land from the crusaders.

Eventually the Romans destroyed the fabled city of Carthage. What could never be erased, however, was the brilliant legacy of the man who has been called the world's finest soldier. Magnificent is the word for everything Hannibal did - he moved huge armies against impossible odds, he won great battles, and he survived tremendous defeats. He was famed for his military genius, but his incredible overland campaign against Rome with foot soldiers, cavalry, baggage train, and elephants astonish...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Asian adventure about a kidnapped woman and the trouble it becomes to attempt to rescue her. Evil men, impassable mountains, bad weather, bandits etc. A true adventure and a ripping good yarn!

During his lifetime, Tamerlane conquered more territory than anyone except Alexander. His rule extended from his home base in Samarkand, southern Russia down through Iran and Syria in the west and into Northern Indian the south, and eastward into the westernmost parts of China. Although at times a brutal conqueror, he was also a man of compassion and great intelligence. He spoke several languages and was a patron of art, poetry and music.

The story of Genghis Khan. What is the mystery that surrounds Genghis Khan? More gigantic in historical literature than Alexander the Great, the Caesars, Napoleon, or Hitler... 750 years ago, Genghis Khan, the great Mongolian warlord conquered half the world. A nomad, a hunter and herder of beasts, he out-generaled the powers of three empires. He was a barbarian who had never seen a city and did not know the use of writing, yet drew up a code of laws for fifty nations which survived for ce...

An outstanding scholar of the East, author Harold Lamb here presented another one of his brilliant, carefully worked, and blazingly colorful tapestries of a man and his era - in this case, it is Suleiman, wisest and strongest of the Sultans of Turkey, who lived during the dying days of the Renaissance. Suleiman was building an invincible empire to the East. Drawn at first by temperament and beliefs toward Europe, Suleiman learned that the Christian rulers would never regard him as one of t...

Is it possible that a peasant and a circus girl could come to rule the Roman world? This is the strange tale of the harlot empress Theodora - the eerie beauty whose name stands in history beside Helen of Troy and Cleopatra. The daughter of a circus performer, a footloose vagabond and harlot, whose fierce ambition drove her from man to man until she finally married Justinian, a man of most humble origins who would become one of the greatest emperors of the ancient world!

"Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde" is a book by Harold Lamb about the rise of one of the greatest empires in history. It is a well written book with plenty of details. It is also informative and covers the subject well. Genghis Khan was one of the most successful rulers in history. His empire stretched from the Pacific Coast of China to Russia and the Middle East. Yet he started as a humble nomad moving from place to place in the icy steppe. Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde covers all th...

An outstanding scholar of the East, author Harold Lamb here presented another one of his brilliant, carefully worked, and blazingly colorful tapestries of a man and his era - in this case, it is Suleiman, wisest and strongest of the Sultans of Turkey, who lived during the dying days of the Renaissance. Suleiman was building an invincible empire to the East. Drawn at first by temperament and beliefs toward Europe, Suleiman learned that the Christian rulers would never regard him as one of t...