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 & loathing in its victims or slaughtered so many of its vanquished. What other army in history has marched on Russia in the winter & survived let alone won victories? The stories of these & 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 & beyond.