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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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02 Sep 2004 04:23:58 PM |
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OT: Lame but never halting |
Lame but never halting
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3127398
Aug 26th 2004
From The Economist print edition
HIS trademark was a pile of skulls, formed from the slaughtered
inhabitants of cities that resisted him. He launched a fresh military
campaign almost every spring, riding south one year to sack Delhi,
then west to the shores of the Mediterranean, destroying every
monument in Baghdad on the way, before setting off to loot Peking. The
vast empire he established—though the term suggests an administrative
unity it never possessed—started to disintegrate on the day of his
death in 1405; 100 years later it had vanished entirely. To one
historian, he represented the "supreme example of soulless and
unproductive militarism" until the advent of Hitler.
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
By Justin Marozzi
HarperCollins; 449 pages; £25
Tamerlane Tamburlaine
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