From Publishers WeeklyIggulden’s smashing fourth installment to his Mongol series (Genghis: Bones of the Hills, etc.) picks up after Genghis’s death as his three sons and four grandsons vie to be the Mongol leader. After son Ogedai is named khan, one of his brothers offers himself as a sacrifice; the other is dispatched to rule a distant kingdom; and the four grandsons get started to hatch schemes of their own. While the khan builds the city of Karakorum, his armies fight the Chinese in the east and discover the enemy’s effective use of gunpowder versus the Mongol horse archers. In the west, a mighty Mongol army commanded by Genghis’s best general, Tsubodai, crushes the Russians and the Poles in a series of brilliant campaigns, and as the Mongol horde sacks the cities of Buda and Pest, only the arrival of a disastrous message from Karakorum saves Europe from destruction and Mongol domination. Add assassinations (failures and successes), jealousy, treachery, revenge, betrayal, and surprising plot twists, and Iggulden has devised another rip-roaring historical that accurately depicts the remorseless cruelty of the age. (Jan.)
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ReviewPraise for Conn Iggulden’s novels of the Khan Empire
“Invigorating . . . zesty historical fiction, the kind with a great deal of unbridled combat, precise research, rampaging hordes and believable characters from very dissimilar cultures whose motivation rings unfeigned throughout the centuries.”—USA Today
“Readers who receive pleasure from well-researched tales of historical adventure with an special and significant stress on political intrigue, exotic settings, and military conflict will take delight in the ride.”—Library Journal
“This is epic historical fiction at it is finest: exciting, suspenseful, colorful and well-grounded in fact.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“This appropriately page-turning treatment of a sweeping historical saga will appeal to fans of gritty combat fiction.”—Booklist
“Iggulden writes with sweep and immediacy.”—The Christian Science Monitor
About the AuthorConn Iggulden is the author of three former novels in regards to Genghis Khan—Genghis: Birth of an Empire; Genghis: Lords of the Bow; and Genghis: Bones of the Hills—as well as the Emperor novels, which chronicle the life of Julius Caesar. He is also the co-author of the #1 bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys and The Dangerous Book of Heroes. He lives with his wife and children in Hertfordshire, England.
Conn Silver
The Great Khan is dead. His immense empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving commitment to his people, and the strength of his own indomitable will. Now the very calibers that merged the fierce Mongol tribes threaten to tear them apart, as the heirs of Genghis maneuver for dominance. In the end, only one may command . . .
THE EMPIRE OF SILVER
Conn Iggulden’s #1 globally bestselling epics of historical fiction have enthralled millions of readers around the world. In his spectacular novels with regards to the life and bequest of Genghis Khan, he has traced the path of the legendary conqueror from the harsh grasslands of his youth to the pinnacle of an unexampled empire. Now, even as they struggle for supremacy amid themselves, Genghis’s sons and grandsons extend the reach of his vision, taking their armies further than ever before, into southern China and throughout the steppes and rugged mountains of Russia to the vulnerable heart of Europe, where they will face the most courageous warriors the West commands.
Genghis’s tough and canny heir, Ogedai, is on the verge of being proclaimed the new Khan. But Ogedai has mysteriously delayed his coronation ceremony to finish a fantastic project galore deem a folly: the building of Karakorum, a splendid city amid the wild plains. His puzzling decision emboldens his arrogant brother Chagetai to violently challenge him, while their noble sibling Tolui and his beautiful, wily wife, Sorhatani, will be caught among the two.
Chagetai’s undertake at rebellion reveals shocking truths with regards to Ogedai’s health and imperiled future. As one brother awaits his fate, another awaits his moment to seize power, while spies and assassins play out the ambitions and destinies of their masters.
With his celebrated synthesis of riveting storytelling and peerless historical detail, Conn Iggulden takes his saga of the great Mongol khans to unforgettable new heights, bringing these fabled conquerors and their singular humans to bright life for a new generation of readers.
Conn saxophones begun in Elkhart Indiana in the late 1880′s, when a man named Gus Buescher made a saxophone at the request of sax virtuoso E.A. Lefebre, an individual who had in truth known Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, earlier in the 19th century in Europe. C.G. Conn was the founder and owner of the Conn musical instrument company, and a heap of of his models from the early twentieth century are highly prized instruments that are the choice of some of the top professional saxophone players in the world. Not only that, but Conn’s inventions with saxophone design and production were highly influential to other makers of saxophones.
Conn was a shrewd businessman, too. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1892. There he introduced a bill requiring all U.S. Army regiments to have their own bands, with respective specified instruments. This, of course, resulted in a huge influx of military orders for Conn instruments by the turn of the century. Conn in all likelihood wouldn’t get away with such a blatant conflict of interest today, but he surely knew how to keep the Conn musical instrument company productive.
Alto and tenor saxophones made their debut at the 1893 World’s Columbia Exhibition. This model was called “Wonder” and turn of the century military units used these saxophones in their bands. Early instruments were made in silver plate, with gold-plated keys. Some were made of nickel plate, and a lot of of polished brass.
The 1920s were Conn’s heyday. The company was making instruments that were considered the “gold standard” of saxophone design. They also offered habit finishes and engraving, so that the instruments not only sounded great, they were rather gorgeous as well. After World War II, Conn made a few progressed models, such as the Constellation alto sax, which is to this day highly coveted by collectors.
The “baby boom” years of the 50s caused Conn to focus more and more on student instruments for all those new school pupils. By 1960 Conn was making student saxophones in Arizona, even though professional models were still made in Elkhart. They discontinued making professional models in 1970, however. The history of Conn saxophones is rich and storied and would make an magnificent book.
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
 Silver shines just as bright…
By Jason Frost
Whenever I read a Conn novel I suppose to be taken on a journey. A grand, expansive, lyrical journey. I have followed him since before his introductory `Emperor’ novel and have stayed a fan since. My only quam is that he takes with regards to a year and a half amidst novels so I tend to lose a bit of the story because 1. I’m not getting younger and 2. Ginsing is NASTY! Trying to keep up with the bloodline of Genghis is like attempting to read Braille with ball bearings attached to your fingers. But as I read this latest installment in the `Khan’ series, everything tardily comes back. As massive a figure as Genghis was, the reputation that took me in this book was Tsubodai. The General. The Strategist. The non-bloodline “outcast” that helped build one of THE biggest warrior nations ever. His true affect we’ll in all probability never know but `Empire of Silver’ does a beauteous good occupation of helping us see his contribution. His brutality seems second only to Genghis and I enjoyed reading when it comes to the slaughter he meted out to anybody who didn’t have the sense to give up.
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