Book review - "Genghis Khan" by Frank McLynn

 McLynn's done a very good job - it feels like exhaustive research, he keeps it readable, I can't see how this would be better. Genghis was a genius and a genuinely self made man. But he killed and killed and conquered and conquered and there was no point. Millions died because he wanted to expand then constructed a society dependent on war. They would routinely wipe out towns, chopping up pregnant women. And it got wearying. Reading this I thought "I bet the author will say oh everyone did this back then" and he did and that made me more depressed. Look, I get it, the book is just a downer to read.