Fire on the Frontier
The Life of Ertugrul Gazi — Warrior, Father, and the Forgotten Founder of the Ottoman EmpireBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 15m
About this audiobook
He left almost nothing behind—just two small silver coins. That is the entire record written about Ertugrul Gazi while he was alive. Nine words of metal. Everything else came later.
This is the story of who he actually was: a displaced herdsman leading a hundred households west as the Mongols dismantled the world behind him. Given a poor frontier district nobody wanted, he never took a city or won a recorded battle. Instead, he held a few hundred frightened people together for fifty years.
Six hundred years later, his descendants ruled from Vienna to Basra.
Fire on the Frontier is narrative history that separates fact from court flattery, honest about what cannot be known.
• Understand why the smallest, poorest principality lasted six centuries
• Recognize the quiet worth of unwitnessed work with no proof it will hold
He never knew what he started. Open the first page.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (126)
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GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length8 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 12, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
2Prologue
31. The Sky Before the Horsemen
42. Two Thousand Miles of Wanting Water
53. My Father's Name
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64. The Brothers Who Turned Back
75. Anatolia
86. The Sultan's Tent at Konya
97. Winter Quarters, Summer Grass
108. A Mosque for Forty Men
119. The Sword in Service
1210. The Greek Farmer's Ox
1311. Against the Byzantines
1412. The Woman Whose Name We Are Not Sure Of
1513. No One Writes About the Hard Winters
1614. Three Sons
1715. After Kose Dag
1816. The Art of Standing Between
1917. The Boy Who Would Not Sit Still
2018. The Long Sunset
2119. The Death of a Warrior
2220. What Grew from Forty Men
23Epilogue
2421. Author's Note
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