Quite a Gentleman
Robert Irwin: The invariably savage Tamerlane, 19 May 2005
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
by Justin Marozzi.
HarperCollins, 449 pp., £25, August 2004,9780007116119 Show More
by Justin Marozzi.
HarperCollins, 449 pp., £25, August 2004,
“... of the sanguinary career of Tamerlane for the Time-Life History of the World. After my editor, Charles Boyle, had read the first draft, he went home and dreamed a strange dream in which ‘Old Hoppity’ turned up at Time-Life’s London offices. The dream, in time, metamorphosed into a poem, which he included in his collection The Very Man (1993). It ... ”