Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in the Tenth Century: A Comparative Study

by Georgios Theotokis

Book Overview

This book examines the strategies and military tactics of the Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century. This period of conflict is difficult to define: it was too inactive to be called a 'war' but too active to be called a 'cold war'. Nevertheless, it was a 'war', even if it lacked the numerous pitched battles or protracted sieges that defined other periods or other operational theatres...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474431046
• ISBN13: 9781474431040
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"