I got this out of the library and made it through Themistocles and part of Belisarius. Hanson is a terrific researcher and analyst, but he is a clunky writer, plagued by random modifiers and scatterings of qualifying phrases which make his prose draaaaaaaaaaag.
>> I got this out of the library and made it through Themistocles and part of Belisarius.
And here I thought *I* was an intellectual, because I made it through Far Side and part of Dilbert. :-)