Book · 1939 · Nonfiction
The Empire of the Steppes
A History of Central Asia
Rutgers University Press · 687 pages
★ 5.9 editorial score
Wave after wave of horsemen out of the grasslands, breaking settled empires from China to Hungary. Grousset made Attila, Genghis Khan, and Tamerlane one continuous history running from the Scythians to 1757.
