The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire

by Edward N. Luttwak

Book Overview

In this book, the distinguished writer Edward N. Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest definition. This extraordinary endurance is all the more remarkable because the Byzantine empire was favored neither by geography nor by military preponderance. Yet it was the western empire that dissolved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674062078
• ISBN13: 9780674062078
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"