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The Ottoman centuries : the rise and fall of the Turkish empire

In this definitive history of the Ottoman Empire, Lord Kinross, painstaking historian and superb writer, never loses sight of the larger issues, economic, political, and social. At the same time he delineates his characters with obvious zest, displaying them in all their extravagance, audacity and, sometimes, ruthlessness

Print Book, English, 2002, ©1977
Perennial, New York, 2002, ©1977