Review by James B. Meigs Read the review By Victor Davis Hanson | Basic Thebes, Carthage, Constantinople, Tenochtitlán: These civilizations were cut down in their prime, some with little warning.

Washington: Potomac Books, 2012. Pp. viii, 266 ... who has written extensively in ancient military history. Gabriel opens with a long chapter on the evolution of warfare in the period through the ...

474-491), British classicist Crawford, a specialist in Late Antiquity, uses the life of the man to help examine the convoluted history of the Roman Empire ... (one of whom actually managed to capture ...