The Last Great War of Antiquity (By James Howard-Johnston)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Great War of Antiquity Author: James Howard-Johnston Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: 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.