Barbarians is Coming

Barbarians

Twenty wonderful, large plates in colour, by Angus McBride, illustrate Barbarians by Tim Newark, published by Concord.

This book is an illustrated military review of the barbarian invasions from the 5th century BC to the 10th century AD in Europe. In it we see successive waves of barbarian peoples from the Celts and the Scythians to the Vikings and Magyars.

The exciting Angus McBride plates are:

    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, c.100 BC
    7. Romans pay off British spy, northern England, 1st century AD
    8. Alamanni 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

In addition there are four plates of black and white line drawings by Edward Haney. We would much prefer to be able to reproduce in Greenhill Military Book News one of the Angus McBride plates, but cannot yet, at any rate, print in colour. Hence here now is one of the fine Edward Haney line drawings from Barbarians.

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