
Harold Lamb's marvelous historical biographies of Genghis Khan, Alexander, and Hannibal have been best sellers for decades. His fiction—great high adventure sometimes blended with modest elements of fantasy—is a delight for the reader.The Three Palladins is a novel of Temujin, who became the Great Khan, and his palladins—his warrior heroes—in a day of the sword. Originating, and returning to its climax in the courts of Cathay, here are high adventures that move across the mysterious and mighty Asiatic continent. The palladins are led close to the "roof of the world" to fabled Tangut, land of fertile fields, blue lakes, and the black walls of the castle of the magician, Prester John of Asia.
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Harold Albert Lamb was an American historian, screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist. Born in Alpine, New Jersey, he attended Columbia University, where his interest in the peoples and history of Asia began. Lamb built a career with his writing from an early age. He got his start in the pulp magazines, quickly moving to the prestigious Adventure magazine, his primary fiction outlet for nineteen years. In 1927 he wrote a biography of Genghis Khan, and following on its success turned more and more to the writing of non-fiction, penning numerous biographies and popular history books until his death in 1962. The success of Lamb's two volume history of the Crusades led to his discovery by Cecil B. DeMille, who employed Lamb as a technical advisor on a related movie, The Crusades, and used him as a screenwriter on many other DeMille movies thereafter. Lamb spoke French, Latin, Persian, and Arabic, and, by his own account, a smattering of Manchu-Tartar. From Wikipedia