Frank McLynn is a British journalist, historian, and biographer and the author of twenty-nine critically acclaimed books. His best-known works include biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Jung, Richard Francis Burton, and Henry Morton Stanley. His book The Jacobite Army in England was awarded the Cheltenham Prize for Literature in 1985, and he was short-listed for the 1989 McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year in 1989. He is a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate.
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Mongol leader Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal... SEE MORE