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 Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval EmpireBest Price: $18.72 Because the Byzantine Empire lasted 1,129 years (from Constantine's founding of Constantinople... |  1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the WestBest Price: $5.98 The book is very well researched and practically reads like a novel, with varying descriptions... |  Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman EmpireBest Price: $8.79 Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire In "Lords of the Horizons"... |  The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Canto)Best Price: $15.48 Over five hundred years have passed since Constantinople became Istanbul. It is difficult to... |  The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (New Approaches to European History)Best Price: $14.01 The following comments apply to the First Edition - I have not read the Second. When I bought... |
 Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern TurkeyBest Price: $10.96 Andrew Mango has obviously done a great deal of research into his fascinating subject. The book... |  Paul: A Critical LifeBest Price: $19.00 "Paul: A Critical Life" by Murphy-O'Connor is a very detailed book written for those... |  Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a CityBest Price: $12.46 This book has been popular, because no one independently checked the statements in the book. ... |  Ottoman CenturiesBest Price: $7.49 Unless you're an absolute Ottomaniac, this one-volume history of the great Turkish Empire should... |  The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $10.28 I think reading this book is an experience in itself. Its remarkable how similar we all are in... |
 Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two WorldsBest Price: $8.86 The army is an Ataturk fundemantalist and is holding Turkey back. Kinzer has a very good ... |  Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's HistoryBest Price: $16.19 I picked up this book in preparation for a class trip to Turkey to look at architecture and... |  The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & CrescentBest Price: $8.72 Rather looks like a turn paper of a quite average-college standard. Also, the reference index... |  Not Even My Name: A True StoryBest Price: $7.99 Extremely well written and oh so true! Many of us heard these stories from your yiayias... |  Constantinople: Capital of ByzantiumBest Price: $14.45 Johnathan Harris' "Constantinople Capital of Byzantium" is an excellent introduction... |
 Istanbul: The Imperial CityBest Price: $7.09 This is being used a text for the History of Turkey in a local junior college. it is highly... |  Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition (Phoenix Book)Best Price: $7.98 A small book, one volume in a larger series of studies of world civilazations published by... |  Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and TurkeyBest Price: $19.25 This was a very powerful book for me as a foreigner living in Turkey. It's easy to take one... |  The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of CatalhoyukBest Price: $19.92 I bought the Leopard's Tale because I had read another book, Inside the Neolithic Mind:... |  Farewell to Salonica: City at the CrossroadsBest Price: $8.92 I discovered this book by reading Mazower's book. This was a pure delight to read. The author... |
 Portrait of a Turkish FamilyBest Price: $18.20 Exellent book realy well written (if a little dry in some parts) This is Irfan Orga's personal... |  Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a PlaceBest Price: $2.88 This is a personal musing written in a diary format. Very disappointing read. Lacks depth on... |  Storey's Guide to Raising Turkeys: Breeds, Care, HealthBest Price: $10.25 Storey's Guide to Raising Turkeys is an invaluable resource for everyone who raises turkeys. It... |  The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History)Best Price: $29.82 This is an excellent book. It is about the Harem, but not about fantasies or orientalist vision,... |  Troy C. 1700-1250 BC (Fortress, 17)Best Price: $3.39 This is the best visual guide I have seen to what the fabled city of Troy actually looked like... |
 The New Turkey: The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of EuropeBest Price: $12.20 For serious travelers to Turkey, this is an excellent history of, and commentary on past and... |  The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power (European History in Perspective)Best Price: $8.62 This stimulating and ground-breaking book surveys the history of the Ottoman Empire from its... |  The Rough Guide to Turkey 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)Best Price: $14.20 Highly disappointed in the 2007 edition of the Rough Guide to Turkey. I've used the Rough Guide... |  Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian GenocideBest Price: $13.81 Very well designed and laid out, the background to this very sad chapter in history is... |  In Search of the Trojan War, Updated editionBest Price: $6.00 This is the up-dated edition of Michael Wood's classic work on the Trojan War. The new material... |
 Gallipoli (Perennial Classics)Best Price: $7.99 This book is certainly a classic, as it is one of the first comprehensive overviews of this epic... |  The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of CivilizationBest Price: $5.75 What would it have been like to live there? A high plain, holding a marshland framed by distant... |  Clash of The Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War IIBest Price: $3.30 In the preface to COTC, much is made of the fact that few books have been written about the... |  Ottoman Wars: An Empire Besieged (Modern Wars In Perspective)Best Price: $30.06 For whatever reason, this has been a long time coming: its arrival has been rumoured for years.... |  Byzantine Infantryman: Eastern Roman Empire c.900-1204 (Warrior)Best Price: $10.93 Also recommended for such an audience is Timothy Dawson's BYZANTINE INFANTRYMAN: EASTERN ROMAN... |
 Turkey: A Modern History, Revised EditionBest Price: $26.05 This is a serious book about the emergence of modern Turkey. It provides a fairly balanced... |  Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman EmpireBest Price: $6.18 This book is large for a reason- it is a comprehensive work on the History of the Ottoman... |  Islamic Political Identity in Turkey (Religion and Global Politics)Best Price: $26.95 M. Hakan Yavuz's book Islamic Political Identity in Turkey claims that the reconstitution or... |  The Walls of Constantinople AD 324-1453 (Fortress)Best Price: $7.63 Like most of the Osprey series books on fortifications this one provides a very good... |  Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey (Studies in Forced Migration)Best Price: $22.50 I can only echo what the previous reviewer has indicated: this is an excellent overview of the... |
 Adrianople AD 378: The Goths crush Rome's legions (Campaign)Best Price: $7.73 This campaign title follows the movement of Gothic rebels through the Roman Balkans 376-8 before... |  The Ottoman Army 1914-18 (Men-at-Arms)Best Price: $10.64 THIS A GOOD BOOK FOR GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TURKISH ARMY IN WW1 HAS SOME EXCELLENT... |  Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman EmpireBest Price: $22.04 To date no book has explored the day-to-day life of the common people during the centuries of... |  The Emergence of Modern Turkey (Studies in Middle Eastern History)Best Price: $29.09 ... you can fool most of the people most of the time. The reliability of a historian does not... |  Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (Centers of Civilization Series)Best Price: $11.99 He wrote on Turkey for nearly half a century. He also wrote on Middle-East as well but his real... |
 The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success (Oxford Linguistics)Best Price: $33.03 I just finished the book -- reading 1-2 hours daily for 3 days -- and a very brief summary of... |  The Western Shores of Turkey: Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean CoastsBest Price: $14.04 Resting on two continents, Turkey reflects and absorbs the cultures of both East and West and... |  House With Wisteria: Memoirs of Halide EdibBest Price: $19.95 House With Wisteria: Memoirs Of Halide Edib is the personal memoir and testimony of a woman's... |  Gallipoli: The Turkish StoryBest Price: $12.40 Brilliant layout , not only explains the sides at war but also the plans before and its effect... |  Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic WorldBest Price: $2.48 A surprizingly large expanse of territory across the globe is inhabited by Turkish and Turkic... |
 Ottoman Women: Myth and RealityBest Price: $18.00 There are many stereotypes about the Ottoman women. Most of them are product of mere... |  Scotch and Holy WaterBest Price: $14.95 "Scotch and Holy Water, by John D. Tumpane, is a charming account of the adventures of a... |  An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire (Economic & Social History of the Ottoman Empire)Best Price: $12.04 I wouldn't say that social history enters much into the book. The authors have written a... |  Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey (Politics, History, and Culture)Best Price: $19.74 As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish... |  The Turks in World HistoryBest Price: $16.90 It is a good and brief source of information, sometimes, quite detailed about the history of... |
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