The Mongols

Stephen Turnbull

Bloomsbury USA, Nov 20, 1980 - History - 40 pages

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.

About the author

Stephen Turnbull is widely recognised as the world's leading English language authority on the samurai of Japan. He took his first degree at Cambridge and has two MAs (in Theology and Military History) and a PhD from Leeds University. He is now retired and pursues an active literary career, having now published 85 books. His expertise has helped with numerous projects including films, television and the award-winning strategy game Shogun Total War. Angus McBride was born in London in 1931. By the age of 12 he became an orphan and had to leave England following World War II and head to South Africa where he became a fairly well-known and successful artist in Cape Town. In 1961, he moved back to England. By 1975, he began to work with Osprey Publishing's Men-at-Arms series. He is best known for realistic, historical illustrations. Angus McBride died on 15 May 2007.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mongols; Volume 105 of Osprey military / Men-at-arms series
• Author: Stephen Turnbull
• Illustrated by: Angus McBride
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 1980
• ISBN: 0850453720, 9780850453720
• Length: 40 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / Military / General; History / Military / Medieval; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social