Warriors Of The Steppe: A Military History Of Central Asia, 500 B.c. To 1700 A.d.

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Da Capo Press, Jul 21, 1997 - History - 260 pages
The first book to examine the nomads of Asia from a purely military perspective, from the ancient Scythians to the Manchu conquest of China. Across these two thousand years, the horse archer armies of the steppe-considered here as a unified phenomenon, linked by their reliance on mass cavalry tactics and the composite bow-resembled an unstoppable "force of nature" which sedentary people, except in rare instances, were unable to resist.

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Introduction
1
Nomads
5
Horse and Bow
15
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