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9 July 2015

Genghis and Saladin: the men who invented global terror

Saladin decapitated prisoners as ruthlessly as Isis does now - and Genghis Khan was brutal from childhood. But what can we learn from these men?

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Genghis Khan: the Man Who Conquered the World
Frank McLynn
The Bodley Head, 646pp, £25

Saladin: the Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire
John Man
Bantam Press, 287pp, £20

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