Read by Robert Blumenfeld

A gripping biography of one of the most sensational figures in Turkish
history!

Sultan Mehmet II, known to his countrymen as -the Conqueror- and to
much of Europe as -the Terror of the World,- was once Europe-s most
feared and powerful ruler. Now, Turkey-s most beloved American scholar,
John Freely, brings to life this charismatic hero of one of the richest
histories in the world.

Mehmet was barely twenty-one when he conquered Byzantine Constantinople,
which became Istanbul and the capital of his mighty empire. Mehmet reigned
for thirty years, during which time his armies extended the borders
of his empire halfway across Asia Minor and as far into Europe as Hungary
and Italy. Three popes called for crusades against him as Christian
Europe came face to face with a new Muslim empire.

Revered by the Turks and seen as a brutal tyrant by the West, Mehmet
was a brilliant military leader as well as a renaissance prince. His
court housed Persian and Turkish poets, Arab and Greek astronomers,
and Italian scholars and artists.

In the first biography of Mehmet in thirty years, John Freely vividly
illuminates the man behind the myths.

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