Providing a study of US policy towards Afghanistan from the Soviet intervention of 1979 to the exit of US/International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) combat troops at the end of 2014, this book ex
Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his shor
A selection of reports on the Japanese army fighting the Chinese during World War II. The reports were commissioned by the general staff of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army out of Dutch concern that
Continuing the series of philological and historical commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with Book 29, which is devoted to the judicial terror in Antioch under Valens and the warfar
Continuing the series of commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with Book 30, which is devoted to the conflicts between Rome and Persia over Armenia and the campaign of Valentinian aga
Continuing the series of philological and historical commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with Book 28, which is devoted primarily to the deplorable events in Rome during the reign o
Continuing the series of philological and historical commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with Book 27, in which the author deals with military operations and internal affairs. In th
Having commented on earlier sections of Ammianus' history of Rome, Den Boft and colleagues here consider the first book that discusses the Pannonian emperors Valentinian and Valens, that is, the post-
This is the final volume in the series of commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae. Book 31 describes the Gothic invasion of 376 CE, the defeat of the Romans in the battle of Adrianople and the death of t
Book 25 of the Res Gestae is the final part of Ammianus' trilogy on the Persian expedition under Roman emperor Julian, and the last in which Julian himself plays a leading part. It begins about 35 kil
This is a commentary on Book XXIV of the Res Gestae by the fourth century historian Ammianus Marcellinus. The commentary discusses philological, literary, linguistic and historical problems in the Lat
The papers in this volume treat historical, historiographical and literary aspects of the last six books of Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae, which deal with the period between the death of Julian (3
