Morton Nicholas The Mongol Storm

<p><b>''Brain-stretching . . . pulsating . . . irresistable'' <i>The Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading'' Dan Jones</b><br><br><b>''Erudite, often thrilling and much-needed'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br></b><b>How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages. </b><br><br>For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region''s complex history. As <i>The Mongol Storm</i> reveals, during the same era the Near East was utterly remade by another series of wars: the Mongol invasions. <br><br>In a single generation, the Mongols conquered vast swaths of the Near East and upended the region''s geopolitics. Amid the chaos of the Mongol onslaught, long-standing powers such as the Byzantines, the Seljuk Turks, and the crusaders struggled to survive, while new players such as the Ottomans arose to fight back