“Rommel, you magnificent SOB, I read your d*mned book.”
Belisarius’s loss to Mark Harmon disappointed me more, after which Harmon’s gelding Dinozzo and McGee, killing off the Jews, and the ultra-incompetent Bishop drove me away from NCIS.
And Longinus the Isaurian and Mudilas, the guards of Belisarius, made themselves conspicuous for their valor in the battle.
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Did he have the spear of destiny?
So you have a hasty retreat that wasn’t even necessarily to safety, and you weren’t controlling your flanks and choke points. Ouch
Thanks, that was quite interesting.
Not only that, he created Airwolf. (And JAG, And NCIS, And Quantum Leap...)
Why do they make movies about comic book characters when there’s so much real history that tell more fantastic but true stories?
An excellent read though somewhat questionable in its historical accuracy is the Robert Grave’s novel “Count Belisarius”.
Perhaps the greatest and least known general of late antiquity.
Belisarius was a great general who achieved a lot for Justinian - but didn’t his public life eventually end in disgrace and disfavor of the crown?
Thanx