A review by mary_soon_lee
The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe by James Chambers

4.0

Summer-reading book review #24: "The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe," by James Chambers. Though at times too densely packed with information to be easily digestible (at least by me), this is a good reference work on the Mongols. I found myself highlighting detail after detail, including such tidbits as "Inalchuk was sent to Chingis Khan's headquarters, where molten silver was poured into his eyes and ears until he died" and "there was a whole period in Chinese art when all the statues and paintings were of horses, since the Mongol patrons desired nothing else" and "After the battle the Mongols recorded the number of enemy dead by cutting an ear from every body and collecting them into nine large sacks which they sent to Batu."