Название: Belisarius: The Last Roman General
Автор: Ian Hughes
Издательство: Westholme Pub Llc
ISBN: 1594160856
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 304
Размер: 24,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Belisarius (c. 505–565 AD) was the greatest general of the Eastern Roman Empire and is among history’s most notable military personalities. At the age of 29, he twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals, before going on to regain the Italian peninsula from the Ostrogoths, including the Eternal City, Rome. Fighting in the name of Justinian I, Belisarius recaptured large portions of the original territory of the ancient Roman Empire. However, Byzantium was both unwilling and incapable of retaining much of Belisarius’s hard-won advances, and soon after his death, the empire once again retracted.