because he conveyed such a good sense of the battle stratagems by Belisarius, seen as worth studying for their applicability (p. 66). In World War I the battle strategy of the Germans, influenced by Clausewitz, was that of the annihilating push to destroy the We see how that tactic led to the trench warfare enemy’s army. that devastated European civilisation. By bringing back to mind alternative strategy, Graves may have been trying to Belisarius’s come to terms with his own experiences as a soldier obeying orders in the trench warfare of World War I. Peter G. Christensen taught English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin and Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI. He died on 3 September 2007. Novels about Justinian and His Times: Bradshaw, Gillian, (Boston: Houghton The Bearkeeper’s Daughter Mifflin, 1987) Dixon, Pierson, The Glittering Horn: Secret Memoirs of the Court of (London: Cape, 1958) Justinian Downey, Glanville, (New Belisarius, Young General of Byzantium York: Dutton, 1960) Eleftheriou, Basil E., (Pittsburgh: Sterling House, 1999) Justinian Flint, Eric, and David Drake, (Riverdale, NY: Baen, Destiny’s Shield 2000 (Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2000) — Fortune’s Stroke (Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2001) The Tide of Victory — Genlis, Stephanie Félicité, (Boston: Belisarius: A Historical Romance Mallory, 1810) Gerson, Noel Bertram, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Theodora: A Novel Prentice-Hall, 1969) Herrmann, Klaus. (Weimar: Weimar Der Brand von Byzanz; Roman Volksverlag, 1960) Kay, Guy Gavriel, The Sarantine Mosaic: Sailing to Sarantium; Lord of 2 vols (Toronto: Viking, 1998–2000) the Emperors, Lamb, Harold, Theodora and the Emperor: A Drama of Justinian Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952) Marmontel, Jean-François, (London: P. Vaillant, 1767) Belisarius
because he conveyed such a good sense of the battle stratagems by Belisarius, seen as worth studying for their applicability (p. 66). In World War I the battle strategy of the Germans, influenced by Clausewitz, was that of the annihilating push to destroy the enemy’s army. We see how that tactic led to the trench warfare that devastated European civilisation. By bringing back to mind Belisarius’s alternative strategy, Graves may have been trying to come to terms with his own experiences as a soldier obeying orders in the trench warfare of World War I. Peter G. Christensen taught English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin and Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI. He died on 3 September 2007. Novels about Justinian and His Times: Bradshaw, Gillian, The Bearkeeper’s Daughter (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987) Dixon, Pierson, The Glittering Horn: Secret Memoirs of the Court of Justinian (London: Cape, 1958) Downey, Glanville, Belisarius, Young General of Byzantium (New York: Dutton, 1960) Eleftheriou, Basil E., Justinian (Pittsburgh: Sterling House, 1999) Flint, Eric, and David Drake, Destiny’s Shield (Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2000 — Fortune’s Stroke (Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2000) — The Tide of Victory (Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2001) Genlis, Stephanie Félicité, Belisarius: A Historical Romance (Boston: Mallory, 1810) Gerson, Noel Bertram, Theodora: A Novel (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969) Herrmann, Klaus. Der Brand von Byzanz; Roman (Weimar: Weimar Volksverlag, 1960) Kay, Guy Gavriel, The Sarantine Mosaic: Sailing to Sarantium; Lord of the Emperors, 2 vols (Toronto: Viking, 1998–2000) Lamb, Harold, Theodora and the Emperor: A Drama of Justinian Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952) Marmontel, Jean-François, Belisarius (London: P. Vaillant, 1767)
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