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<div><p>This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbons positing of imperial<i>Decline and Fall</i> to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience.&nbsp; It is a great sweep of a story: from Gibbon as standard textbook, through Lord Bryon the pro-Turkish poet, and Benjamin Disraeli the Romantic novelist of all things Eastern, followed by John Buchan's<i>Greenmantle</i> First World War espionage fantasies, and then<i>Manchester Guardian</i> reporter Arnold Toynbee narrating the fight for Turkish independence.</p></div>

This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon&apos;s positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience.&nbsp; It is a great sweep of a story: from Gibbon as standard textbook, through Lord Bryon the pro-Turkish poet, and Benjamin Disraeli the Romantic novelist of all things Eastern, followed by John Buchan&apos;s Greenmantle First World War espionage fantasies, and then Manchester Guardian reporter Arnold Toynbee narrating the fight for Turkish independence.