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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 : Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Ace Hardcover
ISBN 13 : 9780441382972
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janissaries III written by Jerry Pournelle and published by Ace Hardcover. This book was released on 1987 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Galloway sets out to convince his fellow mercenaries--warriors abducted from Earth--to band together against a common enemy before the Demon Star can annihilate the planet Tran

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 : 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 : 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 : Jerry Pournelle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708882986
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janissaries 3 written by Jerry Pournelle and published by . This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marinos Sariyannis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900438524X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century written by Marinos Sariyannis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century, Marinos Sariyannis offers a survey of Ottoman political literature, from its beginnings until the beginning of the Tanzimat reforms.

Author : Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 162579438X
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord of Janissaries written by Jerry Pournelle and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2015-08-16 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three best-selling Jerry Pournelle masterpieces in one volume for the first time: Janissaries and Tran. A modern soldier is transported by aliens to a world filled with warriors through the ages including medieval knights, Roman soldiers. His task: survival. Janissaries Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangeorus mission--only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile teritory, with local troops and their Cuban "advisors" rapidly closing in. And then the alien spaceship landed... Clan and Crown and Storms of Victory He didn't want to conquer the world. He had to. Captain Rick Galloway, formerly of the US Army, more recently a mercenary commander, was now Lord Rick on the planet Tran. Rescued by an alien spaceship from certain death when a mercenary assignment went sour, he and his men were dropped on a world distant from Earth, but inhabited by humans transplanted in the past from medieval Europe, from Imperial Rome, and from other now-vanished nations. Now the time of the Demon Star approaches, whose close approach and fierce heat will render much of Tran uninhabitable. To survive this fiery apocalypse, the warring nations of Tran must be united. Lord Rick doesn't want to conquer the world, but the alternative is certain extinction! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Janissaries: "On the cover... is the clain 'No. 1 Adventure Novel of the Year.' And well it might be." - Milwaukee Journal

Author : David Drake
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618242997
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ranks of Bronze written by David Drake and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were Roman soldiers¾ and they were still alive because there were no better killers in the galaxy. The Galactics need fighters who could win battles without the aid of technology. That's why, when Rome's legions suffered disaster at Carrhae, secretive alien traders were waiting to buy them on the Persian slave market. Now, virtually immortal, the Romans fight strange enemies on stranger worlds; and though they win every battle, the spoils of victory never include freedom. If the legionaries are ever to return to Earth, it must be through the beam weapons and force screens of their ruthless alien owners. But no matter the odds, two thousand years is a long time; the Romans are coming home. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Noel Malcolm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019256580X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Useful Enemies written by Noel Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the deep hostility of Western Christendom towards Islam. Yet there was also much curiosity about the social and political system on which the huge power of the sultans was based. In the sixteenth century, especially, when Ottoman territorial expansion was rapid and Ottoman institutions seemed particularly robust, there was even open admiration. In this path-breaking book Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction, studying all the ways in which thinkers in the West interpreted the Ottoman Empire as a political phenomenon - and Islam as a political religion. Useful Enemies shows how the concept of 'oriental despotism' began as an attempt to turn the tables on a very positive analysis of Ottoman state power, and how, as it developed, it interacted with Western debates about monarchy and government. Noel Malcolm also shows how a negative portrayal of Islam as a religion devised for political purposes was assimilated by radical writers, who extended the criticism to all religions, including Christianity itself. Examining the works of many famous thinkers (including Machiavelli, Bodin, and Montesquieu) and many less well-known ones, Useful Enemies illuminates the long-term development of Western ideas about the Ottomans, and about Islam. Noel Malcolm shows how these ideas became intertwined with internal Western debates about power, religion, society, and war. Discussions of Islam and the Ottoman Empire were thus bound up with mainstream thinking in the West on a wide range of important topics. These Eastern enemies were not just there to be denounced. They were there to be made use of, in arguments which contributed significantly to the development of Western political thought.