Lords of the Horizons av Jason Goodwin

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<p><b>¿Perhaps the most readable history ever written¿ <i>Time Out</i></b><br><b><i><br>Lords of the Horizons</i></b><b> charts the Ottoman Empire''s swirling epic history; dramatic ¿ detailed and alive ¿ a journey, and a world all in one.</b><br><br>The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted, and total.<br><br><b>¿A fascinating read...a perfect companion for anyone who visits Turkey and wants to make sense of it¿ <i>The Times</i></b></p>