TY - SOUND AU - Bear,Erik AU - Bear,Greg AU - Brassey,Joseph AU - Daniels,Luke AU - deBirmingham,E.D. AU - Moo,Cooper AU - Stephenson,Neal AU - Teppo,Mark ED - Brilliance Audio (Firm) TI - The Mongoliad T2 - Mongoliad trilogy SN - 1455866628 PY - 2012/// CY - Grand Haven, MI PB - Brilliance Audio, Inc. KW - Military history, Medieval KW - Fiction KW - Mongols KW - Secret societies KW - Europe KW - History KW - 476-1492 KW - Counterfactual histories KW - Alternative histories (Fiction) KW - gsafd KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft KW - Science fiction N1 - Compact discs; Duration: 13:23:00; Title from container; Unabridged; Read by Luke Daniels N2 - Fusing historical events with a gripping fictional narrative, this first book in the Mongoliad trilogy reveals a secret history of Europe in the thirteenth century. As the Mongols swept across Asia and were poised to invade Europe in 1241, a small band of warriors, inheritors of an ancient secret tradition, conceived a desperate plan to stop the attack. They must kill the Khan of Khans; if they fail, all of Christendom will be destroyed. In the late nineteenth century, a mysterious group of English martial arts aficionados provided Sir Richard F. Burton, well-known expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, a collection of long-lost manuscripts to translate. Burton's work was subsequently misplaced, only to be discovered by a team of amateur archaeologists in the ruins of a mansion in Treiste. From Burton's translations and the original source material, the epic tale of The Mongoliad was recreated ER -