Warriors Of The Steppe: A Military History Of Central Asia, 500 B.c. To 1700 A.d.The first book to examine the nomads of Asia from a purely military perspective, from the ancient Scythians to the Manchu conquest of China. Across these two thousand years, the horse archer armies of the steppe considered here as a unified phenomenon, linked by their reliance on mass cavalry tactics and the composite bow resembled an unstoppable "force of nature" which sedentary people, except in rare instances, were unable to resist., ISBN13: