On a sweltering August day in 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes watched his army of forty thousand shatter against the Seljuk Turks of Alp Arslan-a defeat that would strip Anatolia from Christian rule and reshape the medieval world. The Day the Empire Lost Anatolia reveals the battle as it truly unfolded, phase by phase, through four original tactical diagrams and maps that clarify the deadly sequence of feigned retreat, encirclement, and collapse. Order-of-battle tables break down the opposing forces, while anecdotes drawn directly from Attaleiates, Skylitzes, and other primary sources by name bring the commanders, deserters, and desperate last stands to life. For readers of narrative military history who demand both the human drama and the hard mechanics of how a great empire fell.
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