Originally published in 1916, this work provides a detailed study of the first century of the Ottoman Empire. It traces the life and career of Osman himself and of his descendants, Orkhan, Murad and Bayezid, who laid the foundations of the Ottoman Empire.

Herbert Adam Gibbons

CHAPTER IOSMAN: A NEW RACE APPEABS IN HISTORY CHAPTER II ORKHAN: A NEW NATION IS FORMED AND COMES INTO CONTACT WITH THE WESTERN WORLD CHAPTER III MURAD: THE OSMANUS LAY THE FOUNDATIONS OF AN EMPIRE IN EUROPE CHAPTER IV BAYEZID: THE OSMANUS INHERIT THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE