Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading -- Dan Jones

Erudite, often thrilling and much-needed -- Daily Telegraph

Brain-stretching . . . pulsating . . . irresistable . . . A reminder that the best history writing is eminently readable -- The Sunday Times

Revelatory, lively and stocked with colourful personalities -- Literary Review

An unusual blend of serious scholarship with a narrative drive as galloping as the ferocious Mongol cavalry whose repeated battlefield triumphs Nicholas Morton recreates with relish -- The Sunday Times

The most exciting study of the Mongols and their encounters with the peoples of the Near East I have ever read -- William Chester Jordan, Princeton University

This expert study casts the Middle Ages in a new light -- Publishers Weekly

For anyone who loves history, especially with military and diplomatic focuses -- Library Journal

An epic account tracing the rise of the Mongol Empire.