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The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire - Theodosius the Great - 10-26-2009
A new book on Byzantine warfare has just been published :
[size=150:2559jpan]The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire[/size], by Edward Luttwak.
http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Strategy-By ... 333&sr=8-1
I managed to browse through a copy yesterday and the book is more comprehensive than the author's
previous book, "The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire" (1976).
~Theo
Re: The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire - Virilis - 10-26-2009
Thanks Theo, a "must" buy
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Re: The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire - sonic - 10-26-2009
Ye Gods, not another book to buy ...
Re: The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire - Ioannes_Ahenobarbus - 10-28-2009
Although it is still on my backlog thanks to school, from what I've browsed through, it seems pretty good and I would recommend at least an inter-library loan for you Byzantine/Late Roman guys out there. The author also received input from some of the most prominent scholars on the Byzantine military, Walter Kaegi and John Haldon. I know this does not make the book infallible, but it can't hurt.
Re: The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire - Robert Vermaat - 10-28-2009
You can check out this link to Google Books.
Personally I'm not happy with the title, but then again, he wrote the other book as well, so I guess a title like 'The Grand Strategy of the other Roman Empire' would not really do.
Of course, the 'grand strategy' of the Later Roman Empire was already written, by Martijn Nicasie:
Nicasie, Martijn (1997): Twilight of Empire, the Roman Army from the Reign of Diocletian until the Battle of Adrianople, (Thesis Publishers Amsterdam).