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