Lord Of Janissaries

Author : Jerry Pournelle,Roland J. Green
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625794383

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Lord of Janissaries by Jerry Pournelle,Roland J. Green Pdf

Three best-selling Jerry Pournelle masterpieces in one volume for the first time: Janissaries and Tran. A modern soldier is transported by aliens to a world filled with warriors through the ages including medieval knights, Roman soldiers. His task: survival. Janissaries Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangeorus mission--only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile teritory, with local troops and their Cuban "advisors" rapidly closing in. And then the alien spaceship landed... Clan and Crown and Storms of Victory He didn't want to conquer the world. He had to. Captain Rick Galloway, formerly of the US Army, more recently a mercenary commander, was now Lord Rick on the planet Tran. Rescued by an alien spaceship from certain death when a mercenary assignment went sour, he and his men were dropped on a world distant from Earth, but inhabited by humans transplanted in the past from medieval Europe, from Imperial Rome, and from other now-vanished nations. Now the time of the Demon Star approaches, whose close approach and fierce heat will render much of Tran uninhabitable. To survive this fiery apocalypse, the warring nations of Tran must be united. Lord Rick doesn't want to conquer the world, but the alternative is certain extinction! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Janissaries: "On the cover... is the clain 'No. 1 Adventure Novel of the Year.' And well it might be." - Milwaukee Journal

Author : Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618248206

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Janissaries by Jerry Pournelle Pdf

Reluctantly volunteering for a dangerous mission, Captain Rick Galloway and his men are cut off in hostile territory when the CIA pulls out their support, an event that is further complicated when an alien spaceship arrives. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Jerry Pournelle,Roland Green
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618248251

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Tran by Jerry Pournelle,Roland Green Pdf

Finding himself on the distant world of Tran, which is populated by humans from all Earth times, former mercenary Rick Galloway, now known as Lord Rick, must unite the warring nations of the planet to survive the time of the Demon Star. Includes: Clan & Crown and Storms of Victory At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Jason Goodwin
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429934374

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The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin Pdf

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL This first book in the Investigator Yashim series is a richly entertaining tale, full of exotic history and intrigue, introduces Investigator Yashim: In 1830s Istanbul, an extra-ordinary hero tackles an extraordinary plot that threatens to topple the Ottoman Empire It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the Sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to find out: Yashim Lastname, a man both brilliant and near-invisible in this world. You see, Yashim is a eunuch. He leads us into the palace's luxurious seraglios and Istanbul's teeming streets, and leans on the wisdom of a dyspeptic Polish ambassador, a transsexual dancer, and a Creole-born queen mother. And he introduces us to the Janissaries. For 400 years, they were the empire's elite soldiers, but they grew too powerful, and ten years ago, the Sultan had them crushed. Are the Janissaries staging a brutal comeback?

Author : Jerry Pournelle,Roland J. Green
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441382991

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Janissaries III by Jerry Pournelle,Roland J. Green Pdf

Kidnapped from Earth by the Shalnuksi slavemasters, Rick Galloway and his band of mercs are trapped on the planet Tran. Doom is hurtling toward the planet in the form of the devastating Demon Star. Earth's transplanted warriors--Romans, Huns, Vietnam vets--must unite, or be exterminated.

Author : Jason Goodwin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446420157

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Lords of the Horizons by Jason Goodwin Pdf

‘Perhaps the most readable history ever written’ Time Out Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic — detailed and alive — a journey, and a world all in one. The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted, and total. ‘A fascinating read...a perfect companion for anyone who visits Turkey and wants to make sense of it’ The Times

Author : Xiao XiaoMaJiaHao
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636890920

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Three Kingdoms: Iron Emperor by Xiao XiaoMaJiaHao Pdf

Lu Bu? That was my defeat! Zhao Yun? That's my senior brother! Sun Ce? He has to call me teacher! Sun Quan? When did he ever see me? A novel about modern people travelling to the Three Kingdoms, a book about a soldier stealing grain and a gun.

Author : Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1244863272

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Janissaries: Clan and Crown by Jerry Pournelle Pdf

Author : Lord Kinross
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0688080936

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Ottoman Centuries by Lord Kinross Pdf

The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI was sent into exile by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk). In this definitive history of the Ottoman Empire, Lord Kinross, painstaking historian and superb writer, never loses sight of the larger issues, economic, political, and social. At the same time he delineates his characters with obvious zest, displaying them in all their extravagance, audacity and, sometimes, ruthlessness.

Author : Godfrey Goodwin
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780863567810

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The Janissaries by Godfrey Goodwin Pdf

From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. They set up semi-independent states along the North African coast and even fought at sea. Their political power was such that even sultans trembled. Who were they? Why were they an elite? Why did they decline and what was their end? These are some of the questions which this book attempts to answer. It is the story of extraordinary personalities in both victory and defeat. 'An incredible book ... a tour de force' Middle East International 'Well written and lucid.' Muslim World Books Review 'Goodwin has done so much in his scholarly career to introduce a wide audience to Ottoman culture.' Financial Times

Author : Xiao XiaoMaJiaHao
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636899565

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Three Kingdoms: Super Hegemon by Xiao XiaoMaJiaHao Pdf

At the beginning of the chaotic era, as a special forces soldier of the later generation, Luo Yang came to this chaotic era. Perhaps, surviving was the first problem that Luo Yang needed to solve! As long as he could survive, he was willing to do anything! If you don't let me live! Then I will kill you! Soldier? Snatch! An army? Snatch! A city? Snatch! A famous general? Snatch! Beautiful women? Snatch! Country? Snatch! The world? After snatching so much, the world was no longer taking it for granted!

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371669

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The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie Pdf

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar’s grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, ‘Lady Black Eyes’, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerised by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The Enchantress of Florence is a love story and a mystery – the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other – the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia’s boyhood friend ‘il Machia’ – Niccolò Machiavelli – is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor’s story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he’s a liar, must he die?

Author : Jerry Pournelle
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441382959

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Janissaries by Jerry Pournelle Pdf

Author : Talat S. Halman,Jayne L. Warner
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780815656296

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Ibrahim the Mad and Other Plays by Talat S. Halman,Jayne L. Warner Pdf

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Turkish playwriting has been notable for its verve and versatility. This two-volume anthology is the first major collection of plays in English of modern Turkish drama, a selection dealing with ancient Anatolian mythology, Ottoman history, contemporary social issues and family dramas, ribald comedy from Turkey’s cities and rural areas. It also includes several plays set outside Turkey. The two volumes together will feature seventeen plays by major playwrights published or produced from the late 1940s to the present day, with volume 1,“Ibrahim the Mad” and Other Plays, encompassing plays from the 1940s through the 1960s, and volume 2, "I, Anatolia" and Other Plays, including plays from the 1970s through the 1990s. They grant to English readers the pleasure of riveting drama in translations that are colloquial as well as faithful. For producers, directors, and actors they provide a wealth of fresh, new material, with characters ranging from Ottoman sultans to a Soviet cosmonaut, from the Byzantine Empress Theodora to a fisherman's wife, from residents of an Istanbul neighborhood to King Midas, from Montezuma to a Turkish cabinet minister.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : UCAL:B3044800

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Anonim Pdf

Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.