books.google.com - Tamerlane, aka Temur-the Mongol successor to Genghis Khan-ranks with Alexander the Great as one of the world's great conquerors, yet the details of his life are scarcely known in the West. Born in obscurity and poverty, he rose to become a fierce tribal leader, and with that his dominion and power grew...http://books.google.com/books/about/Tamerlane.html?id=Ay23EpKGFi0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareTamerlane