Procopius of Caesarea was the official historian attached to Belisarius’s campaigns under the Emperor Justinian. Books V and VI of his History of the Wars cover the Gothic War — Belisarius’s extraordinary campaign to reconquer Italy from the Ostrogothic kingdom between 535 and 540 AD, including the sieges of Naples and Rome and the capture of Ravenna. Procopius writes as a firsthand observer with a sharp eye for personality and strategy.
This free EPUB is formatted for e-readers. Together with his other works, Procopius is the essential source for the Justinianic reconquest and one of the most vivid historians of the late antique world.