It’s an incredibly compelling read and it changes the way you see the world. It presents this world in its full complexity. “A wonderful book… Suffice to say that in their politics, administration, family lives and, yes, their warfare, the Mongols were far more complicated than we think. “Fascinating… The Mongols were a sophisticated people with an impressive talent for government and a sensitive relationship with the natural world… An impressively researched and intelligently reasoned book that will be welcomed by historians of the Mongol Empire. Favereau, a French specialist on nomadic empires, achieves the exceptional feat of writing about this era in a way that is accessible to general readers as well as scholarly. “In medieval European times, the Mongols ruled a vast area of the Eurasian landmass stretching as far to the west as modern Ukraine. “The Mongols have been ill-served by history, the victims of an unfortunate mixture of prejudice and perplexity… The Horde flourished, in Favereau’s fresh, persuasive telling, precisely because it was not the one-trick homicidal rabble of legend. “Terrific-a really important reassessment of the origins of one of the great empires in history.
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