Combat- Byzantine Cavalryman vs Vandal Warrior North Africa AD 533–36

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781472853707
  • 25 mei 2023
  • 80 pagina's
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Fully illustrated, this enthralling study explores how the Vandals in North Africa attempted to defend their kingdom against the resurgent Byzantine Empire during 533-36. In AD 533, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I launched the first of his campaigns to reconquer the Western Roman Empire. This effort began in North Africa (modern Algeria and Tunisia), targeting the Vandal kingdom established there a century earlier, which also included Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearic Islands. Featuring full-colour artwork and mapping alongside carefully chosen archive illustrations, this book shows how the Byzantine general Belisarius established his formidable reputation in the lightning-fast campaign that ensued, exploring the origins, tactics and reputation of the two sides' forces as they fought for control of North Africa. The landing of Belisarius' forces took the Vandal king, Gelimer, completely by surprise; in September 533 the two sides met in battle near Carthage in an encounter known to posterity as Ad Decimum, with Gelimer ambitiously attempting to trap Belisarius' forces as they advanced. In December, the two sides fought again in a momentous clash at Tricamarum, where the fate of Gelimer's regime would be determined. A third battle ensued in 536, when the rebel Stotzas' Byzantine and Vandal troops confronted Belisarius' forces, the outcome sealing the Byzantine general's standing as the foremost soldier of his age. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and mapping alongside archive illustrations and photographs, this vivid account compares and assesses the two sides' fighting men as they vied for supremacy in North Africa.

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en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
25 mei 2023
Aantal pagina's
80

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Hoofdauteur
Murray Dahm
Hoofdillustrator
Giuseppe Rava
Hoofduitgeverij
Osprey Publishing

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184 mm
Product lengte
248 mm
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75 mm
Verpakking hoogte
12 mm
Verpakking lengte
132 mm
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98 g

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