Nowadays – in our era of planes and fast means of transport — it is difficult to conceive of an empire that could encompass an area running from the Pacific to the Black Sea, larger than the former USSR, than China, than the United States of America.
Yet that was what was the area conquered and held by the powerful Mongol waves that extended under the aegis of Genghis Khan.
When the World was Mine is a novel in which the wind of the steppes bears with it the values of freedom, heroism and loyalty.
It recounts from an insider standpoint, in a powerful mixture of the epic and of what at times seems curiously like a novel of the fantastic, that prodigious adventure which in the 13th century tore through the history of humanity as intensely as a lightning strike.