Mongol Warlords: Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Hulegu, Tamerlane FROM THE PUBLISHER
For more than two thousand years, the Eurasian steppes poured forth wave upon wave of fierce, nomadic conquerors. The last and greatest of these were the Mongols. Feared by their enemies as the 'devil's horsemen', they conquered most of the Asian landmass and plunged on into the Middle East and Europe. These resolute and extraordinary invaders were probably the world's finest horse warriors. Yet their exploits have so often been misrepresented as merely the deeds of bloody and destructive hordes. It was the seeming threat to urban civilization posed by the freeranging, nomadic Mongols that ensured that many of their real achievements - political, cultural and military - were so often wrongly recorded. The pages of The Mongol Warlords will be a revelation to military enthusiast and historian alike. The great Mongol leaders were without equal and their names still sound loudly down the intervening ages.
Genghis Khan The most famous of all Mongol warriors, the conqueror who carved out a vast empire across Asia and into the Middle East and who is still synonymous with great military deeds achieved ruthlessly but with great vision. Kublai Khan A grandson of the mighty Genghis, whose near-legendary reputation in poetry and historical account, as the fabulously wealthy Mongol emperor of China, belies his equally deserved fame as a great military commander. Hulegu Another grandson of Genghis, a savage yet brilliant soldier whose Mongol forces crushed the Moslem might of the Middle East and destroyed the city of Baghdad. Tamerlane Adopting its own versions of his name, Western literature described Timur as "that scourge of God". Yet this crippled conqueror fused cleverly laws of Islam with the wild ways of his nomadic Mongols in an empire spanning the steppes and near East. It was the last great realm of the Mongol horse warriors.
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