
Best Sellers
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The Ottomans
- Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
- By: Marc David Baer
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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A major new history of the 600-year dynasty that connected East to West as never before....
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A fresh take on a canonical story
- By Anonymous User on 14-08-22
By: Marc David Baer
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Istanbul
- A Tale of Three Cities
- By: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact....
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Power is not a means; it is an end.
- By Wras on 26-03-17
By: Bettany Hughes
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In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers....
By: Melvyn Bragg
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Turkey
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Andrew Finkel
- Narrated by: Ken Maxon
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: The only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia....
By: Andrew Finkel
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Istanbul
- Memories of a City
- By: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....
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Self indulgent and random
- By Paul E T Henty on 21-08-15
By: Orhan Pamuk
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The Lion House
- The Coming of a King
- By: Christopher de Bellaigue
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on its entrails....
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A Rare exquisite glimpse into the Ottoman Empire
- By DeltaAlphaXray on 19-03-22
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The Ottomans
- Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
- By: Marc David Baer
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A major new history of the 600-year dynasty that connected East to West as never before....
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A fresh take on a canonical story
- By Anonymous User on 14-08-22
By: Marc David Baer
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Istanbul
- A Tale of Three Cities
- By: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact....
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Power is not a means; it is an end.
- By Wras on 26-03-17
By: Bettany Hughes
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In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers....
By: Melvyn Bragg
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Turkey
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: Andrew Finkel
- Narrated by: Ken Maxon
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: The only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia....
By: Andrew Finkel
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Istanbul
- Memories of a City
- By: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....
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Self indulgent and random
- By Paul E T Henty on 21-08-15
By: Orhan Pamuk
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The Lion House
- The Coming of a King
- By: Christopher de Bellaigue
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on its entrails....
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A Rare exquisite glimpse into the Ottoman Empire
- By DeltaAlphaXray on 19-03-22
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Byzantium
- The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- By: Judith Herrin
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....
By: Judith Herrin
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Early Modern Europe
- A Captivating Guide to a Period in European History with Events Such as the Thirty Years War and the Salem Witch Hunts and Political Powers Such as England and the Ottoman Empire
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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This audiobook includes details of the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern era, where Europe saw significant shifts across the continent in phases....
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Republic of Turkey
- The History of the Ottoman Empire’s Collapse and the Establishment of a New State
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Tim Planiden
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The long agony of the “sick man of Europe”, an expression used by the tsar of Russia to depict the falling Ottoman Empire, could almost blind people to its incredible power and history....
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This book is tok short
- By Anonymous User on 20-09-21
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Erdogan Rising
- The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
- By: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Narrated by: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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Everyone has heard of Erdogan: Turkey’s bullish, mercurial president is the original postmodern populist. Around the world, other strongmen are now following the path that he has blazed....
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Is this a book about Syria or Turkey?
- By Mr T J Colley on 25-01-21
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The Thirty-Year Genocide
- Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
- By: Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi, Claire Bloom
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and then the Turkish Republic against their Christian minorities from 1894 to 1924....
By: Benny Morris, and others
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires looks at the origins of the cities, their rise to power across the Mediterranean, and their inevitable demises....
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Excellent summary of Venetian and Genoese history
- By Peter Robertson on 27-04-22
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The Ottoman Empire
- A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire and Its Control over Much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Desmond Manny
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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The Ottoman world was nothing like an exotic fairy tale featuring tyrant sultans, mean pashas, and ill-fated harem women. The true stories of genuine sultans and princes are a bit more complicated and no less exciting....
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Uncaptivating
- By B on 09-08-19
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Lords of the Horizons
- A History of the Ottoman Empire
- By: Jason Goodwin
- Narrated by: Grahame Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts....
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Fascinating, impressionistic book marred by narration
- By Polaris on 15-11-18
By: Jason Goodwin
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Enver Pasha
- The Cruel Ottoman Leader in the First World War and Armenian Genocide
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Chris Newman
- Length: 42 mins
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It doesn’t seem like Enver Pasha was a good man. His war crimes caused the deaths of millions of innocent citizens. Sure, during a war and a collapsing empire, you try to do what you can to stop losing, but I doubt anyone in their right mind can justify his actions....
By: Kelly Mass
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Lawrence of Arabia on War
- The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18
- By: Robert Johnson
- Narrated by: Robert Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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While Lawrence of Arabia himself has been the subject of many biographies and an award-winning film, the context of his war in the desert, and his ideas on war itself, are less well-known....
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The Arab Revolt reviewed
- By the60sthrowback on 23-12-22
By: Robert Johnson
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Games Without Rules
- The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism.....
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Accurate title
- By The listener on 18-05-14
By: Tamim Ansary
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Turkish Mythology with a Historical Introduction (Annotated)
- Learn About the Colorful Folklore, Vibrant History and Culture of Turkey Through This Collection of 44 Fairy Tales Short Stories
- By: Ignac Kunos
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Turkish mythology is comprised of myths and traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation by the Turkish people. Soon, you will be immersing yourself into their culture and traditions told in an almost poetic way....
By: Ignac Kunos
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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs
- The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
- By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....
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A glass half empty
- By Ed L on 13-02-21
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The Secret History
- By: Procopius
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period....
By: Procopius
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Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Constantinople, and the Life of Suleiman the Magnificent
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Desmond Manny, Duke Holm
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then pay attention....
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Operation Nemesis
- The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
- By: Eric Bogosian
- Narrated by: Eric Bogosian
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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A masterful account of the conspiracy of assassins that hunted down the perpetrators of a genocide....
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Brilliant audio book.
- By Kindle Customer on 02-06-22
By: Eric Bogosian
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Nutuk; Gazi Mustafa Kemal [Speech: Veteran Mustafa Kemal]
- By: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Narrated by: Alperen Kozanoglu
- Length: 28 hrs and 49 mins
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Ey Turk gencligi! Birinci gorevin, Turk bagimsizligini, Turk Cumhuriyeti'ni sonsuza kadar korumak ve savunmaktir.…Zorla ve aldatmacayla sevgili vatanin butun kaleleri zaptedilmis, butun tersanelerine girilmis....
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Ağzınıza sağlık Alperen Bey.
- By KF67 on 06-03-22
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Useful Enemies
- Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
- By: Noel Malcolm
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
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From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 18th century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. In this path-breaking audiobook, Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction....
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BORING
- By J. Wexler on 24-01-22
By: Noel Malcolm
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The Great Siege of Malta
- The History of the Battle for the Mediterranean Island Between the Ottoman Empire and Knights Hospitaller
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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For centuries, Christians and Muslims were embroiled in one of the most infamous territorial disputes of all time, viciously and relentlessly battling one another for the Holy Land....
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Climax at Gallipoli
- The Failure of the August Offensive
- By: Rhys Crawley
- Narrated by: Fred Humberstone
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known campaign of the First World War....
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Nope
- By Matt on 08-10-19
By: Rhys Crawley
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Ottoman Odyssey
- Travels Through a Lost Empire
- By: Alev Scott
- Narrated by: Naomi Frederick
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule ended a century ago - and yet, travelling through 12 countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that's vital and relevant....
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Mediocre, Trite, and Condescending.
- By John Gabriel Corcoran on 14-12-22
By: Alev Scott
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The Fall of Constantinople
- A Captivating Guide to the Conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks That Marked the End of the Byzantine Empire
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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Explore a major turning point in the history of Europe and the Middle East....
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An important scholarly work.
- By Bruno Timothy on 30-09-18
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The Ottoman Empire: A History from Beginning to End
- By: Henry Freeman
- Narrated by: Christopher Boozell
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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Inside, you will hear about the history of the Ottoman empire, including: origins until the Balkan conquests; institutions and society; 15th-century imperial style, 16th-century Golden Age, cracks before World War I; the Eastern Question; and much more....
By: Henry Freeman
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Suleiman the Magnificent: A Captivating Guide to the Longest-Reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Desmond Manny
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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During his reign, Suleiman the Magnificent guided the Ottoman Empire through its golden age of trade and expansion. His reign changed the face of the world, and he was unlike any other sultan before or after him. This audiobook explains why....
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Sultan of the East
- By Mary Amelia on 03-02-19