Quote Originally Posted by gollum View Post
Been reading lately "The Wars of Byzantium" by John Haldon - pretty good book with lots of technical information about army organisation,strategy and tactics in all phases of teh Empire from its beginnings to the battle of Myrioncephalon fought by Manuel Comnenos in Anatolia.
Myriokephalon, you heathen!

Jokes aside, it's a good book, comprehensive and contains lots and lots of useful info. I used it for my Manzikert essay for my diploma alongside Treadgold and a couple of others, and if you manage to read them all you would get a very good idea of how powerful the Byzantine army was and how deplorable it ended up only 100 years later.