Jason Goodwin for Vintage This is a history of the Ottoman Empire that sits carefully between narrative history and a "Wondrous Curisosities" book. As such it is full of clever ways of looking at the commonplace. With its absence of nationalism (they served a family not a nation) the empire at times looks very modern and at others very ancient. Well written, and a pleasure to read. More Old Duffer's Book Corner (book reviews) The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book The Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars 1652-1674 All The King's Armies 1642-1651 The Oxford History of The British Empire Vol 1 Fleet Battle and Blockade Frontiersmen: Warfare in Africa since 1950 Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700 Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa 1830-1914 Borodino Navies and the American Revolution Lords of the Horizons Eagles over the Alps Feeding Mars The Wars of Louis XIV Back to Perfidious Albion #99 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com