The Knights of Islam: The Wars of the Mamluks by James Waterson

The Knights of Islam: The Wars of the Mamluks

James Waterson with John Man (Contributor)

272 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The Mamluks were, at one distinct point in history, the greatest body of fighting men in the world and the quintessence of the mounted warrior. They were slave soldiers, imported as boys into the Islamic Empire from the pagan Steppes, but they bec...

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