Janissaries

Author : Godfrey Goodwin
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863567819
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janissaries written by Godfrey Goodwin and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. They set up semi-independent states along the North African coast and even fought at sea. Their political power was such that even sultans trembled. Who were they? Why were they an elite? Why did they decline and what was their end? These are some of the questions which this book attempts to answer. It is the story of extraordinary personalities in both victory and defeat. 'An incredible book ... a tour de force' Middle East International 'Well written and lucid.' Muslim World Books Review 'Goodwin has done so much in his scholarly career to introduce a wide audience to Ottoman culture.' Financial Times

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781855324138
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janissaries written by David Nicolle and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1995-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Janissaries comprised an élite corps in the service of the Ottoman Empire. It was composed of war captives and Christian youths pressed into service; all of whom were converted to Islam and trained under the strictest discipline. In many ways, Jannisaries reflected Ottoman society, which was itself dominated by a military elite and where there was much greater social mobility than in Europe. On top of this, the Turks looked upon Europe much as the early Americans viewed the Western Frontier – as a land of adventure, mission and opportunity. David Nicolle examines the history, organisation, weapons and uniforms of these élite Turkish troops.

Author : Pournelle
Publisher : Baen
ISBN 13 : 9780671877095
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janissaries written by Pournelle and published by Baen. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission--inly to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban advisors rapidly closing in. And then the alien spacceship landed.

Author : Jason Goodwin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267491
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janissary Tree written by Jason Goodwin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empire, a concubine is strangled in the palace harem. And a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s, The Ottoman Detective is a fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast, from mystic orders and lissom archivists to soup-makers and a seductive ambassador's wife. Darker than any of these is the mysterious figure who controls the Sultan's harem.

Author : Fatma Sel Turhan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857726897
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ottoman Empire and the Bosnian Uprising written by Fatma Sel Turhan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bosnia enjoyed a special status within the Ottoman Empire. Many of the empire's 'janissaries', an elite military stratum of soldiers and nobleman, hailed from this Balkan region. So when Sultan Mehmet II abolished this warrior class in 1826, and this curtailed the regions access to influence in Constantinople, Bosnia rebelled. Under the leadership of Husein Gradascevic, the 'dragon of Bosnia', the kingdom declared independence and waged war with the Ottoman Empire. For the first time, Fatma Sel Turhan illuminates a period of crucial importance to the Balkan regions. She argues convincingly that the uprising was a response to Ottoman moves towards modernization designed to save the Ottoman Empire from decline, but which eventually led to its demise. She assesses how far the uprising can be considered a nationalist movement, who the rebels were, and how the central authorities dealt with and punished the perpetrators. "The Ottoman Empire and the Bosnian Uprising" is a major fresh contribution to our understanding of the late Ottoman world and the history of the Balkans.

Author : Erik-Jan Zürcher
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048517257
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting for a living written by Erik-Jan Zürcher and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military, in one form or another, are always part of the picture. This unique and compelling study investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years, on the basis of case studies from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia. The authors, including Robert Johnson, Frank Tallett and Gilles Weinstein, conduct an international comparison of military service and warfare as forms of labour, and the soldiers as workers. This is the first study to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of military labour, addressing two distinct, and normally quite separate, communities: labour historians and military historians.

Author : Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Ace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780441382996
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janissaries III written by Jerry Pournelle and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped from Earth by the Shalnuksi slavemasters, Rick Galloway and his band of mercs are trapped on the planet Tran. Doom is hurtling toward the planet in the form of the devastating Demon Star. Earth's transplanted warriors--Romans, Huns, Vietnam vets--must unite, or be exterminated.

Author : Mór Jókai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lion of Janina written by Mór Jókai and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali Pasha's resistance to Turkish forces in the 19th century.

Author : Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618248251
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tran written by Jerry Pournelle and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding himself on the distant world of Tran, which is populated by humans from all Earth times, former mercenary Rick Galloway, now known as Lord Rick, must unite the warring nations of the planet to survive the time of the Demon Star. Includes: Clan & Crown and Storms of Victory At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Konstanty Michałowicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558765306
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Janissary written by Konstanty Michałowicz and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation reprinted from bilingual ed., originally published by: Ann Arbor: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, 1975.