Laskar Mongol

Osprey Men at Arms #105

by Stephen Turnbull, Wayne Reynolds

Bangsa Mongol merupakan salah satu bangsa yang paling sukses secara militer sepanjang sejarah. Di bawah kepemimpinan Jenghis Khan dan para penerusnya, mereka menaklukkan sebagian besar dunia, dengan bertempur di berbagai medan, dari padang rumput sampai hutan belantara. Mereka menghadapi berbagai bangsa, dari sesama suku pengembara sampai negeri-negeri beradab dengan kota berbenteng. Di atas kuda, laskar Mongol menebar teror, melindas semua musuh, dan begitu ditakuti sampai-sampai dianggap Hukuman Tuhan oleh bangsa-bangsa yang ditaklukkannya.

Buku ini mengisahkan kehebatan para penunggang kuda dari Asia Tengah ini pada masa penaklukan, juga memberikan rincian persenjataan, taktik, pelatihan, dan kehidupan sehari-hari bangsa Mongol.

Genres: History, Military History, Nonfiction, Medieval, World History, Military Fiction

79 pages, Paperback

First published November 20, 1980

About the author

Stephen Richard Turnbull is British a historian specializing in eastern military history, especially the samurai of Japan. His books are mainly on Japanese and Mongolian subjects. He attended Cambridge University where he gained his first degree. He currently holds an MA in Theology, MA in Military History and a PhD from the University of Leeds where he is currently a lecturer in Far Eastern Religions. He has also written a number of books on other medieval topics. He is semi-retired but still holds the post of Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies at Akita International University in Japan.

Reviews

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

1058 - 2012

Membaca jilid ini tentu saja jadi teringat pada cerita masterpiece Chin Yung: Sia Tiauw Eng Hiong. Karena sebelum membela Kerajaan Song, Kwee Ceng merupakan jenderal besar Mongol yang turut menghancurkan Khwarazm, dengan taktik pasukan terjun payung pertama di dunia (mungkin...)

Yang mengecewakan dari seri Petarung Osprey yang ini:

1. Ilustrasi yang dipakai di buku ini kebanyakan berasal dari museum Jepang. Padahal invasi Jepang adalah salah satu cerita kegagalan laskar Mongol (selain Jawa).

2. Cerita kiprah laskar Mongol di Jawa cuma seuprit, satu paragraf juga tidak. Padahal Kertanegara kan sehebat Helen of Troy, maksudnya sanggup membuat Kublai Khan meluncurkan armada seribu kapal untuk menyerbu Jawa. Sepertinya si penulis malas riset, karena cuma menulis Prajurit Jawa mungkin menggunakan sumpit dengan panah beracun melawan pasukan Mongol. Please dong ah! #pundung

Oke, saudara-saudara, sebenernya mitos mana yang lebih tepat, Raden Wijaya membantu pasukan Mongol menghancurkan Jayakatwang, atau pasukan Mongol membantu Raden Wijaya menghancurkan Jayakatwang?

[Declan Waters · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short review of the conflicts of the Mongols and - importantely for a Man-At-Arms series - a review of what they wore and their weaponry.

There wasn't much in here I didn't already know or hadn't learnt from the Essential Histories on Ghenghis Khan, but the plates (colour pictures) are always useful and will prove a nice resource if I ever need to paint Mongols or their enemies.

[Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

A well-illustrated introduction to a people and an army more famous than understood.

[James S. · Rating 2 out of 5]

An extremely brief and shallow look at the Mongols, with no attention given to what made them so effective or to the significance of their expansion. More of a pamphlet than anything.

[R.D. Villam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cukup informatif, tapi masih kurang memuaskan. Cocok buat pengantar pelajaran kehidupan dan taktik perang laskar mongol, tapi kalo mau lebih dalem ya mesti cari sumber lain. Susahnya memang, karena konon orang2 mongol ini benci buku (mereka terkenal pernah membumihanguskan perpustakaan besar di baghdad), dan karenanya benci penulis dan lebih mengagumi para insinyur yang bisa bantuin mereka bikin peralatan perang canggih, agak susah menemukan catatan sejarah yg ditulis oleh kalangan mereka sendiri. Informasi lebih banyak dari laporan pandangan mata dari musuh2 atau para pengelana dan pedagang seperti marco polo dll. Jadi, ini buku yg cukup bagus, tapi masih belum cemerlang.

[Devon Start · Rating 3 out of 5]

this is a great series that my father and i have been reading for ever. they are always informative studies of tactics, uniforms and the evolution of the warriors in question. For me and my old man the other main benefit are the many colour plates in the book, which we use to accurately paint our toy soldiers. I have read almost the whole series of these books.

[Blain · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short and informative, not much more to say than that, other than it's probably much more interesting to read this as you live in Mongolia

[Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good Pictures, info that's hard to find elsewhere, shame the don't cite their sources

[Manolo González · Rating 4 out of 5]

Astonishly brief! Good to know about the mongols and their campaigns, but NOTHING detailed.