The Barbarians
Warriors & Wars of the Dark Ages

More of a 3.5 since it was a little too scattered for me. It's a tough subject to put in a true linear fashion, though. Newark did a great job of showing how our watered-down, Christian-biased, binary view of history is incorrect in many ways, but he had to hop around quite a bit & there wasn't much......more

This is a surprisingly academically written work. One would expect the style, considering the many illustrations to be a somewhat amateurish work, but Newark writes in a scholarly style. He outlines the history of what is commonly referred to as the “Dark Ages”, the period of history encompassing the......more

An enjoyable overview of co flict involving so-called Barbarians, covering nearly 1000 years. In order to pack all this military history into 150 pages, each section is by necessity quite brief. The colour illustrations are great and very much like you might see in an Osprey military book. The b&w i......more

One of several books on Ancient and Medieval Warfare, Tim Newark has produced an excellent account of the various Barbarian tribes who we would normally associate with the "Dark Ages" including the Huns, the Vikings and the Mongols, but also some of the less well known tribes such as the Avars and t......more