Michael Prawdin (1894–1970)
Author of The Mongol Empire: Its Rise And Legacy
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Michael Prawdin was the pseudonym of Michael Charol.
Works by Michael Prawdin
Het erfgoed van een groot Mongool 1 3 copies
Das Erbe Tschingis-Chans — Author — 3 copies
Rußland 1 copy
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- Prawdin, Michael
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- Charol, Michael
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- 1894-01-20
- Date of death
- 1970-12-23
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- Russia
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- historian
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- According to his publisher, Michael Prawdin was born in the Ukraine in 1884. He studied in Germany and was a literary critic.
- Disambiguation notice
- Michael Prawdin was the pseudonym of Michael Charol.
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So, Jenghiz Khan, the first badass Khakan, boss of all bosses, decided to test fortune by bashing the Chinese in the face. The Chinese wary of the sublime albeit lethal cavalry, retreat to fortified positions. Jenghiz aka Genghis uses wits and some unfortunate cats and swallows, which coating with oil turns the buggers into incendiary devices.
Weirder still is the initial dispatches making their way to Europe via the Silk Road. People thought the Christian armies of the mythic Prester John of India were coming west to fight the Muslims occupying the so-called Holy Lands. Not exactly. Kiev was erased for its impudence.
This continues, involves disputes of succession, finding JK's famed grandson Kublai the Emperor of China as well as Khakan. Eventually across most of their ranks animism gives way to Islam and the Asian world is changed indelibly. This is not Braudel. There is no annotation here. It is a gripping enterprise.
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