Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina

A fascinating biography of Ottoman Greece and Albania’s notorious despot—a major player in the power struggles of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Yanina and the Balkan Napoleon, into the consciousness of Western rulers and the general public? This book chart