Lost to the West; The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization

New York: Crown Publishers, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.00). Quarter red paper with cream paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Brownworth's history of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire, "replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battelfields with blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.