Lords of the Horizons

<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>