The history of the Mongol conquests Author:J. J Saunders The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in the middle of the thirteenth century, were of a scope and range never equaled. These nomadic peoples from central Asia briefly held sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the frontiers of Germany and the shores of the Adriatic. J. J. Saunders's landmark book is a careful... more »ly documented introductory history of the rise and fall of the great Mongol empire.« less