From Broken Bits of Byzantium (1872) by C. G. Curtis
'A rather modest elementary handbook', the manual of war that defined Roman military tactics as the age of standing armies was coming to an end. The ethnographic run-down of Byzantium's enemies' strengths and weaknesses is priceless.
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