The Ottoman world was nothing like an exotic fairytale 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.

Incredible facts about this empire still surprise anyone who starts discovering those stories. You'll find out that, for quite a while, this Islamic state was effectively ruled by women, and that's just the beginning.

In 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, you will discover topics such as

• The First Sultan
• The Conqueror
• The Just and the Resolute
• The Magnificent
• Friend
• The Power of Harem
• The Sultanate of Women
• The Supreme Valide
• Husbands and Sons
• Grandest of the Grand
• Flower Power: the Age of Tulips
• Transformation
• A Step toward Modernization
• The Reorganization
• The Last Absolute Ruler
• The End of the Ottoman Empire
• And much, much more!