Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write this historical romance Author Costain, a Doubleday editor, read or consulted over 500 books, hired a Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem slave, Maryam, daughter of a fraternizing English crusader...
...kind of sling that David used against Goliath, and who spent their spare time stripping the copper wire off the line of telegraph poles. The nomads explained that they knew all about war: their ancestors had fought a dandy one against the Sumerians in 3000 B.C., and their ruling Khan unfailingly subscribed to the airmail edition of TIME...
Devil's Breath. If the superstitious Japanese had put any faith in a "divine wind" to drive off the 1945 occupiers as it had driven off Kublai Khan's in 1281, they were disappointed. True, there was a devil's breath of typhoons roaring around the western Pacific - far more numerous than the Allies had expected - but they delayed the occupation of Japan for only 48 hours...
...Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were the Moslem League's dapper, fractious President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset, smiling, one-eyed, taciturn Englishman at the head of the conference table...
...13th Century, Kublai Khan, Emperor of China, conqueror of Burma and grandson of Genghis Khan, organized an invasion of Japan, lost most of his fleet and his army in the attempt...