Mehmet II : The Conquerer who remade the World

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…A child taken from his home, he built a new identity so completely that he became the instrument of his own brother's destruction. Whether that transformation was survival, genuine conversion, or something in between is a question that cannot be answered from the surviving sources.Mehmet remains the pivot around which both their stories turn — the boy who became a conqueror, who may have loved a hostage, who used that hostage to destroy a man he could not defeat in the field, and who built an empire that lasted five centuries on the ruins of the world he had unmade.Three boys. Three fates. One of the great human stories of the fifteenth century — and of any century.