Description

The history of the Mongol armies is a catalogue of superlatives. No armies in history have ever won so many battles or conquered so much territory. No army has ever provoked such justifiable terror and loathing in its victims, or slaughtered so many of its vanquished. What other army in history has marched on Russia in the winter and survived, let alone won victories? The stories of these and many other amazing feats of this 'barbarian' people are here brought vividly to life by Stephen Turnbull, from the birth of Genghis Khan in the wind-swept steppes of Mongolia, through the conquest of China and beyond.

Table of Contents

The Rise of the Mongols · The Mongol Warrior · Mongol Armies · Mongol Warfare · Mongol Sieges · The Mongols in Russia and Europe · The Plates

Product details

Published Nov 20 1980
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 48
ISBN 9780850453720
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 50 b/w; 8 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Men-at-Arms
Short code MAA 105
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Stephen Turnbull

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Illustrator

Angus McBride

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