Coverage of the development of the art of war from Charlemagne through the Burgundian wars, with focus on occidental processes and only incidental appreciation of oriental contributions, including the ill-fated Byzantines. Volume is concerned with how those groups that destroyed the Roman Empire ha...
Author refers to this volume as the "most important" of the series.Coverage extends from Teutoberg Forest to Tours, though the latter is cursory (for want of reliable source material). Describes the height of the Roman system, its transition and destruction, replacement by a Germanic-Romanic system...