96 Pages
by
Routledge
The history of the Mongol conquests is a catalog of superlatives. No army in the world has ever conquered so much territory, and few fighting forces have provoked such terror as the Mongol hordes. So vast was the extent of the Mongol Empire that the samurai of Japan and the Teutonic Knights of Prussia had each fought the same enemy while being unaware of each other's existence. This book provides... Read more
Introduction; Chronology; The rise of the Mongols; The Mongol army; Beyond the steppes; Building an empire; Subadai Ba'adur (cl176-1248); Terror and reality; The sage Changchun 1148-1227; The jungle frontiers; The Mongol legacy; Further reading; Index
Biography
Stephen Turnbull
