Genghis Khan wasn’t one to let a little thing like the Great Wall of China get in his way
When faced with an obstacle as imposing as the Great Wall of China, most attackers would be forced to admit defeat. Not Genghis Khan. He simply went around it and invaded China by the back door. And it’s his sheer insistence that he was going to succeed that drove him to create the largest contiguous land empire in the whole of human history. Not bad for a nomadic pauper. We pick up his incredible story on page 28.