Novedades

This book gives a general overview of the transition of Anatolia from the Byzantine Rule to the Ottoman Rule. Pivoted around the Battles of Manzikert, Kose Dag and Otlubekli, one would see a gradual slide interrupted rudely by tectonic shifts. The book is a historic chroncle of the events from the perspective of the involving kingdoms - it starts with the rule of Basil II of Byzantium and ends with the rule of Suleiman the Magnificient during whose reign Anatolia lost it's complete importance. It is no more the border province on which kingdoms fought - it's the heartland immune from all ...

In 1915 the Ottoman Empire falters after dominating the Mediterranean region for six hundred years. As World War I explodes through Europe and heads east, the empire sides with the Central Powers, aligning itself against the United States. Ibrahim Öztürk, scion of a prominent Turkish family and proponent of democracy, will spend the next seventy-five years fighting to erase totalitarianism in the fledgling Turkish nation. The fight for a new Turkey will take Ibrahim, his sister Nebile, and his uncle, Rauf, across three continents. They’ll see the historic city of Constantinople ...