I’m currently working my way through “The Secret History of the Mongols”, I’m also reading “Mongol Conquests throughout History”.
I don’t want a Genghis Khan biography, I’ve read a few and know about him well enough.

Anybody who’s interested in this stuff have any gems they know of?

It’s really hard to find anything since these people generally didn’t write anything down

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Posted by biglego

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Posted on 7/31/18 at 12:08 am to Tiger1242

This is not a book but The Great Courses has a lecture on this topic which i enjoyed.

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Posted by Tiger1242

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Posted on 7/31/18 at 8:26 am to biglego

I have heard that lecture and enjoyed it, thanks

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Posted by biglego

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Posted on 7/31/18 at 12:02 pm to Tiger1242

I buy every lecture Kenneth Harl makes. I like his gravelly voice and down to earth style.

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Posted by Tiger1242

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Posted on 7/31/18 at 9:00 pm to biglego

There’s a lot of good content on the great courses series

I’m just looking specifically for steppe tribe stuff right now though

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Posted by SundayFunday

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Posted on 8/1/18 at 8:55 am to Tiger1242

GO to dan Carlin’s website and look at the mongols podcast and he posts all the books he read/researched for the show.

That should have anything you’d need

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Posted by cattus

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Posted on 8/2/18 at 10:02 am to Tiger1242

This area of the world and its history fascinates me, spent a month in Central Asia 15 years ago. Not necessarily recommending because it's quite old but it is a good book to have around if interested in the Steppe.

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Posted by Tiger1242

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Posted on 8/2/18 at 10:44 am to cattus

Thanks

That’s available at my library too

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Posted by bayoubengals88

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Posted on 8/3/18 at 5:18 pm to Tiger1242

Our Chinese history professor required The Devil’s Horsemen for part I of his course.
I only took part II :(

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Posted by real turf fan

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Posted on 8/5/18 at 10:27 pm to Tiger1242

LINK

Not a book, but a modern article from Der Spiegel (in English) which may explain why there's not a lot of writing about that part of the world this decade.

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