Warriors of the Steppe : a military history of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to 1700 A.D.
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Warriors of the Steppe : a military history of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to 1700 A.D.
Sarpedon, 1997
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Bibliography: p. 243-248
Includes index
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A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to 1700 A.D.. 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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