Product Description: 'Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes.' Temujin has had to choose between love and his cause. As Tchingis Khan, he chose the latter. To his amazement his oath-brother marches to war upon him...read more

Product Description: Temujin comes into the world on the day the Mongols suffer a catastrophic defeat in battle. He isn't the hero type, but he has expectations to live up to, and he has a cause: freedom for his way of life, unity against China, where a nomad is an animal...read more

Product Description: Is he Saint Tchingis? Has he grown a monster? Perceptions differ. From the arse end of the steppe, out of nowhere, now he towers over other kings. The other kings club together, as he threatens the very idea of aristocracy, in a last stand of the steppe against Tchingis...read more

Product Description: China has executed Ambaghai, the Mongols' khan, on a hurdle with donkey ears and tail from the theatre, in mockery of the horse peoples of the steppe. It cries for hachi. 'Hachi means that which is owed, or felt due. It can mean an act of humanity...read more

Product Description: "Imagine you had a prophecy you're the advent of the Promised One, the Right Guide and the Champion of Light. You'd believe that, right? And if you didn't, you'd love to meet people who do." Temujin has an awkward time with the prophecy about him and he's happy to remain unknown...read more

Product Description: 'Jamuqa had witnessed, aged fifteen, his tribe strung up on trees. Perhaps you have to go one further.' Jamuqa is mad, and commits an atrocity in challenge of Temujin. His actions - that might have more to do with how he feels about his oath-brother - plunge the Mongols into intertribal war...read more

Product Description: The battle of El Alamein in 1942 was one of the most crucial events in the entire Second World War. Before it, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else, even the Russians. At Alamein the British Eighth Army first thwarted the Axis attempts in North Africa to seize Cairo and the Suez Canal and then smashed through the German-Italian defences, eventually driving the Axis forces out of North Africa...read more

When the British dispatched 400 tanks against the German army at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, the result was a draw—but legend quickly declared the tank a winner following its first major role in combat. Bryn Hammond reveals that the narrative that emerged from this legendary battle was mostly a myth. The initial British successes were due to brilliant innovations in artillery, not tanks—and tanks weren’t enough to keep the Germans from re-capturing their losses. But in this account of Cambrai, the first to appear in four decades, Hammond shows how generals and politicians seduced by the tank’s mythical abilities poured resources into creating a more mobile army in the following decades. By World War II, the tank would live up to its legend.

Product Description: Angling historian Bryn Hammond paints a portrait of trout fishing and trout fishers, aided by contributors, such as Arthur Ransome, John Atherton and Ben Hur Lampman. The work celebrates a world where the important thing - the only important thing - is going trout fishing.