Charlemagne's Early Campaigns (768-777): A Diplomatic and Military Analysis, by Bernard S. Bachrach
Roger Collins
This substantial book may well mark the culmination of its author’s long and distinguished scholarly career as a medieval historian. Or perhaps it should be seen start that phase, since further volumes dealing with rest Charlemagne’s reign follow, though such sequels are not explicitly promised here. For more than forty years, Bernard Bachrach has been writing on military diplomatic topics, mainly related to Francia ranging from Alan incursion 406 eleventh-century Anjou Count Fulk Nerra. In recent years his attention primarily devoted Carolingian period Charlemagne in particular, he produced series books articles refining views Frankish administration warfare. These redeployed here their most developed form, lengthy one-hundred-page introduction which precedes ten chapters deal actual operations 768 777.
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