Noel Barber (1909-1988) is the author of numerous novels that draw upon his experience as a foreign correspondent from the 1940s to the 1960s, including The Black Hole of Calcutta, The Other Side of Paradise, and A Woman of Cairo.
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This brilliantly readable work of history tells the bizarre story of the Ottoman Empire as seen through the lives of its extravagant and tyrannical sultans. With their absolute power, their love of pomp, and their overwhelming venality and corruption, rar... SEE MORE