Described by History Today magazine as `compelling', The Byzantine Wars provides an invaluable survey of the wars between Byzantium and its numerous foes - the Goths, Arabs, Slavs, Crusaders and Ottoman Turks. von Haldon, John

Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World is the first comprehensive study of warfare and the Byzantine world from the sixth to the twelfth century. The book examines Byzantine attitudes to warfare, the effects of war on society...

Not a comprehensive history of the Byzantine world, but one which focuses on particular themes and aspects of the social and cultural history of Byzantium, beginning with the transformation of the Roman world from c.300BC onwards to 1453...