TAMERLANE

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Cripple from Kesh
3. Chapter Two - Bloodline of Genghis
4. Chapter Three - Conquer or Die
5. Chapter Four - The Siege of Herat
6. Chapter Five - The Butcher of Persia
7. Chapter Six - Baghdad Burns Again
8. Chapter Seven - The Crusade in Reverse
9. Chapter Eight - India: The Elephant War
10. Chapter Nine - The Scourge of Islam
11. Chapter Ten - The Ottoman Humiliation
12. Chapter Eleven - The Diplomat and the Demon
13. Chapter Twelve - The Empire of Stories
14. Chapter Thirteen - The March to China
15. Chapter Fourteen - The Curse of the Tomb
16. Chapter Fifteen - Legacy in Fire
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Architect of Oblivion

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THE MONGOLS HAD already burned Baghdad once. They drowned its libraries in ink. They stacked the streets with corpses. They broke the caliphate. But they didn’t finish the job. That was left to Timur. They called him Tamerlane in the West. A name twisted from “Timur the Lame,” the warlord who walked with a limp and conquered like a god. He wasn’t a Mongol by blood, but he wore Genghis Khan’s legacy like armor. He took the old empire’s bones and refashioned them into something even darker. In 1401, he rode into Baghdad. Not to sack it. To obliterate it. The resistance was fierce. For a solid five minutes. Timur crushed it with his usual method: surround, starve, terrify, then...