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[captain kirk]

5,000 each. Both are used books.

The History of the Mongol Conquests. J.J. Saunders, hardcover, pub. 1971. Book opens with (from inside cover jacket note) a chapter on Eurasian nomadism and an account of the Turkish conquests, seven centuries before those of the Mongols. The author deals fully with Chingis
Khan and his achievements both as a soldier and as an administrator, and goes on to describe the Mongol drive into Europe and the Christian response to it. Mongol rule in China and Persia is discussed and the period of Mongol dominance in Russia is also covered. There is a final chapter on the Mongol age in retrospect, which looks at the achievements of the Mongols and includes a comparison between the Arab conquests of the seventh century and the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth (end inside cover jacket note).

Korea was invaded by the Mongols who built a fleet here. Twice they did this and twice they were wrecked en route to Japan. If you go on a visa run to Fukuoka you can see stone anchors from ships made in Korea for these attempted invasions.

This book was 12,000 over at Noksapeong books in Seoul and is hardcover, clean with cover jacket showing a head on head and shoulders of Gengis looking Mongolian.

5,000 and it's yours.(275pages)

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Also 5,000. Japan: from prehistory to modern times. John Whitney Hall. Paperback, 1968. Great shape. 400 pages.

Twenty Chapters. Japan's Historical Position. Japan's Historical Setting. Origins of the Japanese People and Their Culture. Formation of the Early Japanese State. The Yamato State and the Spread of Chinese Influence.
The Aristocratic Age. The Fuedal Age. The First European Encounter. Nobunaga, Ideyoshi and the Pacification of the Daimyo. The Tokugawa Period. The Gathering Foreign Crisis. The Opening of Japan and the End of the Tokugawa System. The Meiji Resoration and its Meaning. Creation of a Modern State. Modern Reforms and Western Influence. The Meiji Constitution and the Emergence of Imperial Japan. The Decade of the 20's- Political Parties and Mass Movements. From Manchuria to War in the Pacific. Occupation and Recovery.

45 illustrations (photos). Including a photo of a keyhole shaped tomb made around the 7th Century for one of the first unifying national leaders so to speak. And this tomb has more volume in its material than the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

5,000 and it's yours. Was at Noksangpyeong books in Seoul for 12,000.