The Byzantines had a remarkably sophisticated approach to politics
and military strategy. Unlike most of their contemporaries, they
learnt very early in their history that winning a battle did not
necessarily win a war, and they frequently bought off their enemies
with treaties and bribes rather than squander men and materiel in
potentially fruitless campaigns. The Byzantine army of the 10th and
early 11th centuries, at the height of its power and efficiency,
was the best-organised, best-trained, best-equipped and
highest-paid in the known world. This splendid book by Ian Heath
examines the Byzantine Armies from 886-1118, including the lusty,
hard-fighting, hard-drinking 'barbarian' Varangian guard.
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