The Secret History of the Mongols
The Secret History is full of rumbustious details of the life and times of Genghis and his Mongol family and associates. There is loving and hating, hunting, shooting and killing. There is a great deal of detail about Mongol civilian life although comparatively little about the military life, which suggests that it was created by non-soldiers - well, the term is dubious because ancient Mongols recognised no distinctions between a soldier and a civilian - every man fought when it was required. It is, above all, a believable account of life. It is Secret perhaps because a more formal and reverential account of the founding of the Mongol peoples was later commissioned after the conquest of China.
Onon, Urgunge (translator), The Secret History of the Mongols (Leiden, 1990, new edition Richmond, 2001).
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