Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782009299
New archaeological material and research underpins this extensive, detailed and beautifully illustrated account of the famous Mamluk Askars who are credited with finally defeating and expelling the Crusaders, halting the Mongol invasion of the Islamic Middle East, and facing down Tamerlane. Probably the ultimate professional soldiers of the medieval period they were supposedly recruited as adolescent slaves, though recent research has begun to undermine this oversimplified interpretation of what has been called the "Mamluk phenomenon".