Books on Belisarius?

[Wargamer]

I've just started reading AN OBLIQUE APPROACH by David Drake and Eric Flint. WOW This is a great book, perhaps the finest sci-fi novel I have read in a very long time. The authors do a great job of bringing to flesh-and-blood life the great military strategist Belisarius as he battles an alien invasion (of sorts---obviously it is alternate history). Anyway, I would like to learn more about this great general. I now the book STRATEGY by Liddell-Hart covers some of his campaigns. But is there a book that focuses entirely on his life? Even though everyone seems to acknowledge him as one of the finest military commanders ever, there doesn't seem to be a lot written about him. Any help would be appreciated.

And don't forget to read AN OBLIQUE APPROACH It is great http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[kataphraktoi]

DOn;'t forget the free e-book can be downloaded at

http://www.baen.com/library/0671878654/0671878654___1.htm

go for it fellas.

[Vlad The Impaler]

i recommend u Count Belisarius by Robert Graves. is a great history novel

[solops]

Procopius was Belisarius' legal advisor and a Historian of the period. Much of what we know of Belisarius comes from his writings. Try these:

Cameron, Averil. Procopius and the Sixth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Procopii Caesariensis opera omnia. Edited by J. Haury; revised by G. Wirth. 3 vols. Leipzig: Teubner, 1976-64. Greek text.

Procopius. Edited by H. B. Dewing. 7 vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and London, Hutchinson, 1914-40. Greek text and English translation.

[solops]

This one is best:

Procopius, History of the Wars, IV, ix, translated by H.B. Dewing (New York: C.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), pp. 279-283.