For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined.
In this striking evocation of the empire\'s power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and h.
In its last three hundred years the Empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay.
Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at its height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched the empire\'s aid.
For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined