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Harold Lamb

Born

in Alpine, New Jersey, The United States

September 01, 1892

Died

April 09, 1962

Website

http://www.haroldlamb.com/

Genre

Historical Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, History

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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 ...more

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	Hannibal 3.97 avg rating — 713 ratings — published 1958 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men 3.77 avg rating — 643 ratings — published 1927 — 165 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Omar Khayyam 3.93 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 1934 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tamerlane the Earth Shaker 3.79 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1928 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alexander of Macedon 3.81 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 1946 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf of the Steppes (The Complete Cossack Adventures #1) by Harold Lamb, Howard Andrew Jones (Editor), S.M. Stirling (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crusades: Iron Men and Saints 3.98 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 1930 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde (World Landmark Books, W-12) 3.54 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1954 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suleiman the Magnificent - Sultan of the East 3.85 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1951 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cyrus the Great 3.61 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1960 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Complete Cossack Adventures (4 books)
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Harold Lamb,

Howard Andrew Jones (Editor),

Barrie Tait Collins (Introduction)

4.30 avg rating — 392 ratings

The Whole Story of the Crusades (3 books)
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Harold Lamb

3.98 avg rating — 402 ratings

Sir Hugh of Taranto trilogy (2 books)
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Harold Lamb,

Alicia Austin (illustrator),

George Barr (illustrator)

4.20 avg rating — 50 ratings

Khlit the Cossack (4 books)
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4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings

Quotes by Harold Lamb (?)

“Through the gate in the mountain comes the buran, the wind that destroys. Shepherds and the flocks of shepherds die at the cold touch of the buran.
From the iron gate of the winds in the sky comes the buran, and where it breathes is desolation.
Before the time of our fathers and their fathers and the memory of the oldest men there came through the gate of the mountain the Destroyer.
Genghis Khan, the Destroyer, rode through the gateway of Mongolia and in his path there was desolation.”
― Harold Lamb, Warriors of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume Two

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“What is fate but the whine of the low-born?”
― Harold Lamb

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“You see," Hassan said, his eyes bright, "what obedience is given me. Is even Malikshah obeyed thus?"
"I saw three lives cast away for nothing."
"Nay, for a proof. What are three lives worth in themselves? Before this sun, that is sinking now, rises again, a thousand human maggots will have crawled into oblivion and another thousand will be spawned upon his dunghill that is our world.”
― Harold Lamb, Omar Khayyam

tags: cynicism, death, life, philosophy

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Swords sans Sorcery (i.e. historical heroic fiction, Harold Lamb)...topic submitted by Joseph

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Michael Moorcock's Elric

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Forgotten Realms books

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Warhammer Black Library works (Old World or 40,000)

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Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales

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An obscure work, title to be determined (i.e. we rediscovered Ramsey Campbell's Ryre...what else is out there?)

1 vote, 3.2%

Graphic Novels & Comics (i.e., Slaine: Warrior's Dawn,The Savage Sword of Conan, Red Sonja)

1 vote, 3.2%

Any book with Frank Frazetta coverart

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Soloman Kane stories by Robert E. Howard (write-in)

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Harold Lamb! (write-in)

1 vote, 3.2%

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