The Only Man Who Defeated Genghis Khan's Army: The True Story of Jalal al-Din

In November 1221, cornered on the bank of the Indus with his army destroyed behind him, he spurred his horse off the edge and swam a river in full armor. Genghis Khan ordered his own archers to stop shooting so he could watch it happen. Jalal al-Din Mangburni was the son nobody wanted on the throne. His own grandmother spent twenty years ...