Spies for the Sultan

Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in the early modern era I n the sixteenth century, an intense rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Habsburg Empire and its allies spurred the creation of early modern intelligence. Translated into English for the first time, Emrah Safa Gürkan's Spies for the Sultan reconstructs this history of Ottoman espionage, sabotage, and bribery practice