Background for Birds Without Wings

Background for Birds Without Wings

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Background: The Ottoman Empire ruled large tracts of central Europe for about 450 years, until it was defeated by the Turkish nationalists in 1918.  The Turks were led by Mustafa Kemal, whose story forms just one of the many threads in this tapestry of a book.  Although I obviously cannot endorse either, I found these sites provided useful background reading about the Ottoman Empire and Mustafa Kemal.
Infoplease.com
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ataturk_kemal.shtml

The excerpt, chosen by the publisher, is from Chapter 27. It's well chosen because it reads much like a short story in its own right; and doesn't give away any key plot details that would spoil your enjoyment of the book before this point.

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This article relates to Birds Without Wings. It first ran in the July 20, 2005 issue of BookBrowse Recommends.