Bernard S. Bachrach. Charlemagne's Early Campaigns (768–777): A Diplomatic and Military Analysis.
Michael Kulikowski
This volume is another of Bernard S. Bachrach's detailed studies the Franks at war, and something a sequel to his The Anatomy Little War: A Diplomatic Military History Gundovald Affair (568–586) (1994) Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude Empire (2001). Like those books, it immensely learned, overly long, woefully proofread. It begins with more than hundred pages prolegomena on general principles. guiding premise that only an “appropriately” (i.e., enormously) account military operations can demonstrate true importance warfare medieval history, what follows delivers detail: five for nine years between 768 777. chapter titles read like training manual or wargaming book, no coincidence. book speaks language staff college Pentagon conceptually very modern even all its close attention to, intimate familiarity with, primary evidence.
The American Historical Review