In this new analysis, Murray Dahm explores the military history of Roman Britain’s slow decline, going back to the roots of the province’s final rupture from Rome in the fifth century and the subsequent invasions. Using a wide array of sources, the author illuminates this dark world and examines what we know (or what we think we know) of the Angle, Jute, Saxon and other invasions that took advantage of Rome’s absence and which, in their own way, shaped the Britain of today.
Murray Dahm is an ancient military historian and assistant editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine. He has previously written about topics including Alexander the Great, the Peloponnesian War and the Gothic Wars. He is the author of 'Finis Britanniae: A Military History of Late Roman Britain and the Saxon Conquest'.