Book Review: Mongols, Huns & Vikings
My trip to the Book Barn of Niantic, CT back in 2024 is the gift that keeps on giving, as I finally completed another book purchased during that trip. I recently finished reading Mongols, Huns & Vikings written by Hugh Kennedy , a British medievalist and professor emeritus at SOAS University of London, edited by John Keegan, and published by Cassel & Co (which has since become self-publishing services Cassel Publishers ) as part of Cassel’s History of Warfare series in 2002. (As a further publishing history note, twelve of the potentially twenty-three books appear to have been picked up by Smithsonian for its seemingly out-of-print History of Warfare series, but this book was not one of them.) Best described as an intellectual coffee table book, this 8" by 10 3/4" volume combines historical research with high resolution, full color images of the artwork, artifacts, and landscapes affected by nomadic peoples from Eurasian history. The blend of beautiful pictures...