COUNT BELISARIUS—Robert Graves— Random House ($3). Sitting in the ruins of the Capitol at twilight, a 27-year-old Englishman named Edward Gibbon once dreamed of writing a massive work on the decline ...
Hughes, who has written widely on the late Roman Army, including Aetius: Attila's Nemesis, gives us an excellent life and times of Flavius Belisarius (c. AD 505-5 65), the Emperor Justinian’s great ...