The book is written in a way which the reader understands the socio-economic realities the Mongols lived in, as well as the brutality of how wealth was won.

A 2006 memoir of Ms. Gilbert which chronicles her trip around the world after her divorce and takes the reader with on her journey of self discovery.

Mr. Gul is an expert on the subject and breezes through acronyms, even though to his credit he explains who they are / were several times in the narrative