The Last Great War Of Antiquity by James Howard-Johnston
A concise, source-driven reconstruction of the climactic Byzantine–Sasanian war of 602–628, tracing its origins in coups and frontier tensions, the Persian capture of the Levant, Egypt, and much of Anatolia, and the audacious counteroffensives that toppled Khosrow II’s regime. Integrating Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and other testimonies, it reassesses chronology, strategy, logistics, and ideology to explain how a seemingly doomed empire reversed its fortunes and how the mutual exhaustion of both powers cleared the way for the early Islamic conquests and a transformed Near Eastern order.
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- 2021
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