Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #154424 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 pages

Customer Reviews

An excellent book on dark-ages Europe
This book covers the various barbarian invaders of Europe, beginning with the Huns and Germans in the Fourth century and continuing through to the Mongols. The book is written in an easy to read manner, and the excellent pictures in this book are crowned by 16 full-page pictures by the incomparable Angus McBride.

20 Plates by Angus McBride:
1. Celtic warriors leave their home for a raid, Central Europe, 4th century BC.
2. Scythian Raiders in Thrace, 5th century BC.
3. Celtic Raiders close on Etruscan town, northern Italy, 375 BC.
4. Alexander the Great meets Celtic warriors, late 4th century BC.
5. Celtiberian warriors with Roman prisoner, late 2nd century BC.
6. Celt fighting German, Central Europe, circa 100 BC.
7. Romans pay off British spy, northern England, 1st century AD.
8. Alammani break into a Roman fort, German border, 3rd century AD.
9. Burgundians enter southern France, 4th century AD.
10. Franks confront frozen Roman, northern France, 4th century AD.
11. Goths and Sarmatian, eastern Europe, 4th century AD.
12. Attila receives tribute from China, middle of 5th century AD.
13. Death of Theoderic, king of the Visigoths, battle of Chalons, 451 AD.
14. Vandal and Alan warriors in North Africa, 5th century AD.
15. Saxon warriors, southern England, 6th century AD.
16. Avar and Bulgar warriors, Eastern Europe, 8th century AD.
17. Lombard warriors, northern Italy, 8th century AD.
18. Viking raiders clash with Carolingians near Paris, 9th century AD.
19. Viking warriors, Norway, 10th century AD.
20. Magyars burn German fort, central Europe, 10th century AD.

This book consists of 20 nice big colour pictures with explanatory paragraphs on the facing page, plus a few line drawings of weapons. In my opinion a couple of the pictures, 9 and 18 (the front cover shown above is a detail of 18), are a bit more cartoonish than his excellent Osprey illustrations. However, the others are good and quite atmospheric.