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Since the 13th-Century reign of Genghis Khan, the Mongols of northern China have been a proud, fierce people. They have fought Chinese and Japanese with equal stubbornness. Just as stubbornly they have fought among themselves. Outer Mongolia fell under Soviet influence; then Inner Mongolia, stretching north from China's Great Wall to the Gobi, became the Japanese puppet state of Meng-Chiang...
...leaked out that General Pai had been poisoned, his entire Army of 18,000 men rode off in the night. With them they took all the machine guns and ammunition the Japanese had given them. Near Paotow in Suiyuan Province, vowing vengeance as terrible as any conceived by Genghis Khan, the Mongols joined forces with the Chinese...
...nomads did not want towns and farms. They liked the freedom of the plains and mountainsides and their own felt tents-the life they had lived since the times of Genghis Khan. To keep their freedom and to live as they had lived for centuries, the Kazaks decided to move out of Sinkiang...
...Kazak leaders had heard of a fabulous, rich and peaceful land to the south. In a place called India, the rumor ran, they could live quietly, with plenty of grass for their flocks. Turning his back on China, the Kazak's sturdy, 40-year-old chieftain Ali Yas Khan led the remnants of the tribe south...
Above the snapping signal flags in the swirling tank battles in Libya hovered the ghostly tradition of Allenby, Jeb Stuart and all the great cavalrymen back to Genghis Khan. But in the clanking, barking tanks rode the spirits of the hard-eyed, dusty men of the U.S. Armored Force. For most of the tanks carrying the British regimental crests out into battle were U.S.-made...