A review by adam_mcphee
The Mongols by David O. Morgan

4.0

A worthy overview of the Mongol empire from the time of Genghis Khan to its eventual collapse. The author makes it as straightforward as possible, which is no easy task: he points out that to study Mongol history, a scholar should be able to read Mongol, Persian and Chinese, the latter of which were the written languages of the empire. Plus there's plenty in Turkic, Arabic and Russian. Also, I think there's something like eleven ways to transliterate Mongolian names into English.

Occasionally lightened with a bit of dark humour.