The Last Great War of Antiquity
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Narrateur(s):
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Nigel Patterson
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Auteur(s):
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James Howard-Johnston
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The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world. The conflict raged on an unprecedented scale, and its end brought the classical phase of history to a close. Despite all this, it has left a conspicuous gap in the history of warfare. This book aims to finally fill that gap.
The war opened in summer 603 when Persian armies launched coordinated attacks across the Roman frontier. Twenty-five years later the fighting stopped after the final, forlorn counteroffensive thrusts of the Emperor Heraclius into the Persians' Mesopotamian heartland. James Howard-Johnston pieces together the scattered and fragmentary evidence of this period to form a coherent story of the dramatic events, as well as an introduction to key players - Turks, Arabs, and Avars, as well as Persians and Romans - and a tour of the vast lands over which the fighting took place.
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Authoritative work on the final Romano-Persian war
H-J's account of the "Last Great War of Antiquity" is the culmination of the author's years of expertise in the period and likely represents what will be the definitive historical narrative of the war for quite some time. This is a scholarly work and delves into heavy citation of primary sources and explores, as much as the sources allow, the minute details of the conflict. More general listeners can also refer to the audiobook versions of Goldsworthy's "Rome and Persia" or Crawford's "The War of the Three Gods" which cover the same conflict.
Praise must be given to Nigel Patterson, the narrator, whose pronunciation of Greco-Roman, Persian and Armenian names is superb. To see a narrator give effort in this is both rare to find and immensely gratifying when encountered and this makes the sizeable near 21 hour narration of H-J's work a very smooth listening experience.
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