Ottoman
Ottoman -by Alan Savage (MacDonald & Co., 1990) .
'In 1448 an English master-gunner, John Hawkwood, arrives in the fabled city of Constantinople. He intends to enter the service of the Byzantine emperor, whose capital is the astonishing meeting-place of East and West-now in dire threat from the Ottoman Turks.
But even gun-powder cannot prevail and, in 1453, Constantinople falls to the foe. By fate the Hawkwoods have already changed allegiance, and now serve the conquerors in their victorious surge across eastern Europe and the Mediterranean shores.
Though showered with wealth and privilege, they need every ounce of political cunning to survive the swirling intrigues and bloody masacres which dominate the Ottoman realm, For four generations the Hawkwood men are military leaders and envoys, while their women are beautiful captives or dutiful concubines trained in the arts of sensual pleasure.
But always the grim spectres of betrayal and sudden death, or ravishment and torture lurk behind the gilded pillars of their palaces and harems...'
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