A review by glennrj
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton

4.0

Less about the Mongols and more about everyone they ran into in the Near East-the Khwarazmian Empire (first I had heard of it), Abbasid Caliphate, the Ayyubids, the Crusaders, the Mamluks, the Byzantines, the Seljuks, the nomad Turks, the Armenians…quite a cast of characters and interesting history read to me.