The Mongol War Machine

While researching Templar Traitor, my novel about an Englishman who fought for Genghis Khan, I was struck by the extraordinary efficiency of the 13th-century Mongol army

The medieval world had never seen anything like the Mongol army. These tough, mostly illiterate horsemen erupted out of the barren steppe at the beginning of the 13th century and, over the next forty…