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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 7935352, member: 111037&quot;]Well, when it comes to Justinian you can actually read books from somebody that knew and worked for him.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius</a></p><p><br /></p><p>All of his 3 main books (<i>History of the Wars, Buildings, Secret History</i>) are easily available in affordable English translations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Secret History is probably the easiest read, and a quite interesting/controversial one... I read it recently and I still do not know what to make of it.... One thing is certain, Justinian must have done something to properly piss off Procopius big time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am currently reading the Alexiad by Anna Komnena. It is a biography of Alexios Komnenos written by his daughter. Very nice read, and also one of the most famous first-hand accounts of the first crusade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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