Jason Goodwin 
Lords of the Horizons [EPUB ebook] 
A History of the Ottoman Empire

Perhaps the most readable history ever written Time Out Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire’s swirling epic history; dramatic detailed and alive a journey, and a world all in one.The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted, and total. A fascinating read…a perfect companion for anyone who visits Turkey and wants to make sense of it The Times