The Ottoman Empire: A History From Beginning to End Paperback – Import, 8 November 2018

There was not a single moment where I doubted the flow of the historical events. Well explained by the author. It was a delight to read it! Keep up the good work 👍

What I like about this is that the book was well summarised and good for beginners to know about a great empire.

Includes good set of facts and observations on the Ottoman Empire. This book includes the whole period of their rule.

The book felt like reading through Mughal history in India, constrained to an hour of reading (inevitably, such a book would probably be limited to Babur, Akbar, Aurungzeb, and fading away with Bahadur Shah Zafar with the rise of the British; with some tidbits like the Taj Mahal thrown in). Except that, unlike the Mughal era, a lot of the Ottoman Sultans were short-lived, and there was a lot of churn in both Sultans and thus in policies and governance mechanisms. While not a very informative book (it has too much to cover), it’s enough to get the broad brushstrokes.

Good read for a quick understanding of the Ottomans. Read it but don’t expect details. It is just an overview.

This book provides the reader with one of the best overviews of the Ottomans. I enjoyed the ride through history, with this book being my first and greatest exp of this great history……

It contained little more than a list of the sultans and a smidgeon of what they did or didn't do then again what else can one Expect.

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I enjoyed the brevity of this book it’s not easy to fit so much history into a small book. A great overview.

The author compactly and clearly pictures the story of the ottoman empire from beginning to end.The sultans' names are hard to remember as turkish spelling and pronunciation is generally unfamilia to me,but if we read this book twice with much attention to their names, i am sure they will come into my mind.Thanks to author's vivid account, I now understand several great sultans in their early history laid the grand work for the long-standing empire for over five centuries.