Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan
$30.00 Read moreOne neighborhood in Istanbul: a window on a city, country, region, and world in a state of upheaval.
Karagumruk, an Istanbul neighborhood once dominated by Ottoman-era homes, is now known for its chea- Author: Hansen, Suzy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0374298432
- Language: English
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The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the “Golden Apple,” as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventee… [more below]
- Author: Wheatcroft, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 046502081X
- Language: English
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The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire
$32.00 Add to cartA new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East
The Ottoman Empire’s collapse at- Author: Aksakal, Mustafa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691262497
- Language: English
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Syria: A Modern History
$35.00 Add to cartA landmark new history of Syria, a country forged in conflict, cursed by civil war and dictatorship, and pivotal to the future of the Middle East
Modern Syria has seen violence, repression, and autoc- Author: Neep, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608127
- Language: English
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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
$33.00 Read moreAn award-winning scholar’s account of an ancient city’s descent into unprecedented communal violence–an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle E… [more below]
- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 154160427X
- Language: English
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The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate
$35.00 Read moreA powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1,300 years of the Muslim caliphate.
From the taking of the holy city of Jerusalem in the- Author: Mayall, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1472864336
- Language: English
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece
In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. T- Author: Kotsonis, Yanni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 069121526X
- Language: English
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
$18.99 Add to cartThe award-winning story of a young Armenian man’s harrowing escape from the massacre of his people and of his granddaughter’s quest to retrace his steps “Part family heirloom, part history less
- Author: Mackeen, Dawn Anahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0544811941
- Language: English
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Crescent Dawn: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern Age
$40.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking new 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.
Th- Author: Sheppard, Si
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1472851463
- Language: English
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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
$19.00 Add to cart“Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds.” –Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Narra- Author: Bellaigue, Christopher de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872480
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$28.00 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1401301916
- Language: English
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A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
$22.65 Read moreWithout the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searche
- Series: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture
- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 9633863996
- Language: English
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R)… [more below]- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1984853856
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$19.99 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1401308503
- Language: English
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The First Crusade: The Call from the East
$24.00 Read more“The most significant contribution to rethinking the origins and course of the First Crusade for a generation.”
“Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense
–Mark Whittow, Times Literary Supplement- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0674970780
- Language: English
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Ottoman Armies 1820-1914
$20.00 Read moreThis book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire’s long spiral of decline.
During the so called ‘long 19th century- Series: Men-At-Arms (Osprey) #551
- Author: Esposito, Gabriele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 147285537X
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
$39.95 Read moreA hundred years after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate on November 1, 1922, enough time has passed to reexamine the Ottomans and reassess their legacy. This illustrated volume, by critically acc
- Author: Darke, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252661
- Language: English
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Revolt In The Desert
$19.95 Add to cart‘Revolt in The Desert’ is a gripping first hand account of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918.
An abridged version of ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom; originally written by T.E. Lawrence after the war for his frien
- Author: Lawrence, T. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1739393201
- Language: English
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Notes on a Foreign Country
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Award – Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction
New York Times Book Review Notable Book – Named a Best Book of the Year by New York M- Author: Hansen, Suzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537836
- Language: English
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The Armenian Genocide: A Captivating Guide to the Massacre of the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Armenian Genocide, then keep reading…
During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian people were deported and killed in the most appalling
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1647480426
- Language: English
