War: What is it Good For?

Edwin Starr asked the Question in his Motown hit record, and he answered it as "Absolutely Nothing!"

No, this blog post is nothing to do with whether troops should be in Iraq or not .... but today's book review is about an Empire that spent nearly 850 years fending off attacks from neighbors before it finally succumbed to the Ottoman Turks in 1453:

Click here to join readers in Turkey exploring "Byzantium at War":

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