CAPTIVES OF TAMURLAINE
Who remembers Bayezit, the Ottoman sultan? In his time, the late fourteenth century, while he ruled, he was a world-class monster, feared by all who stood a chance of encountering him. He ruled supreme in Asia Minor, terrorizing all the other minor powers and princelings, merchant kingdoms and withered empires. Venice, Florence, Genoa, Rome, they'd all heard of him, and feared his violence and greed. To the growing despair of its few supporters in the West, it was he who threatened Byzantium...