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.
                                
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                                                          The Rise of the Mongols · The Mongol Warrior · Mongol Armies · Mongol Warfare · Mongol Sieges · The Mongols in Russia and Europe · The Plates
                                                      
 
                                              Product details
ISBN
                    
            9780850453720
      
                  Published
                     1980-11-20 
                  Publisher
                    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
                  Weight
                     202 gr
                  Height
                     248 mm
                  Width
                     184 mm
                  Thickness
                     5 mm
                  Age
                     G, 01
                  Language
                    
  Product language
              Engelsk
          Format
                    
  Product format
              Heftet
          Number of pages
                     48
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                                          Biographical note
Stephen Turnbull is the world's leading English language authority on medieval Japan and the samurai. He has travelled extensively in the far east, particularly in Japan and Korea and is the author of The Samurai – A Military History and Men-at-Arms 86: Samurai Armies 1550–1615. 
Angus McBride is one of the world's most respected historical illustrators, and has contributed to more than 70 Osprey titles in the past three decades. Born in 1931 of Highland parents but orphaned as a child, he was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School. He worked in advertising agencies from 1947, and after national service, emigrated to South Africa. He now lives and works in Cape Town.
