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

4.0

A thorough and relatively detailed description of the Mongols' campaigns in Europe, Chambers' book sheds light on the subject in a rather compact package. Having never really broached the subject before, I found the book quite well-written, with an approachable narrative structure. The text is slightly tedious in that it involves hundreds of names, which, especially toward the end of the book, become quite difficult to follow. Sometimes history is like that, and with a complex subject handled in relatively few pages, it is quite understandable that readability is to some extent sacrificed to give the reader the whole picture instead of cutting corners.