Sons of the Conquerors
Hugh Pope
413 pages including index
published in 2005
When I got this book from the library I thought it would be more of a history book than it turned out to be. Instead what I got was the traveloque of a Turcophile American journalist through the Turkic world and his impressions of the history of the Turcic peoples and the contemporary politics shaping their countries. Despite this misunderstanding sons of the Conquerors was well worth reading, perhaps lighter on history than I would’ve liked it to be, but good at giving a contemporary snapshot of the Turkic world.