Turkey

Brought to you by Penguin. Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic – a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers and Knights Hospitaller on a strategically crucial but near waterless island and a...

Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948....

Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists, and theologians have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion some of these personalities and institutions....

Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....

Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism.....

In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes listeners on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquests of Alexander the Great....

The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

Whereas for much of human history slavery was somewhat arbitrary, in its later forms, it often had a discriminatory component, typically based on race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. This distinction shows how the practitioners of slavery justified the practice in terms of ideology....

If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then pay attention....

The situation in Egypt sounds messy today, but strife in Egypt is hardly a new occurrence. In fact, conflict has been more of a rule than exception since the end of the 18th century....

With beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world....

A groundbreaking history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of a modern Europe.

This panoramic book shows how the Greek Revolution was a demographic upheaval more consequential than the overthrow of a ruler.

From the taking of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I, Christian popes, emperors and kings, and Muslim caliphs and sultans were locked in a 1300-year battle for political, military, economic and religious supremacy.

Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the 20th century....

The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period....

For centuries, Christians and Muslims were embroiled in one of the most infamous territorial disputes of all time, viciously and relentlessly battling one another for the Holy Land....

Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known campaign of the First World War....

In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453....

Inside, you will hear about the history of the Ottoman empire, including: origins until the Balkan conquests; institutions and society; 15th-century imperial style, 16th-century Golden Age, cracks before World War I; the Eastern Question; and much more....

The Hittites built a remarkable civilization that deserves a spot in history. Sadly, few historians have been ready to tackle the task of uncovering the true story of these astonishing people. In this new audiobook, you will discover the truth about this fascinating ancient civilization....

During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian people were deported and killed in the most appalling ways comprehensible....

While Lawrence of Arabia himself has been the subject of many biographies and an award-winning film, the context of his war in the desert, and his ideas on war itself, are less well-known....

‘Essential reading for anyone interested in Turkey and its future.’ Literary Review ‘Essential reading full stop.’ Peter Frankopan ‘It is a must.’ The Times Who is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how did he lead a democracy on the fringe of Europe into dictatorship? How has chaos in the...