"A must read for anyone interested in this period."

Battlefield magazine, Autumn 2024

An inherently fascinating, unique, documented, and extraordinarily well written history, "The Long War for Britannia 367 - 664: Arthur and the History of Post-Roman Britain" is further enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of a twenty-eight page Bibliography and a ten page Glossary. Impressively informative and a singularly invaluable contribution to the study of post-Roman Britain and the legends/stories of Arthur Pendragon, "The Long War for Britannia 367-664" is a very special and strongly recommended contribution to personal, professional, community, and college/university library histories of Great Britain' history.

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Midwest Book Review

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Highlight: This book will definitely appeal to those who are fascinated with the legend of King Arthur, along with those who are interested in the Post Roman period. I would also suggest anyone who plans to recreate this period on the tabletop with rules such as Saga; Age of Invasions would do well to pick a copy up. For wargamers this will provide a great deal of background information that would greatly aid in developing a suitable campaign. For
those interested in the history and myths from the Dark Ages, then this book will provide some fresh new ideas that are worth reading about.

Irregular Magazine

I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to encounter when I started but I was pleasantly surprised by an informative, well-written and enjoyable work which does an excellent job of detailing a period of British history which is unknown to the vast majority. Whether there are parallels with the mass immigration of our own time remains to be seen but one of the key themes of the book is how subtle the integration process often was over three centuries, as opposed to the traditional image of perpetual war to the knife and on a winner takes all basis.

Unless there is some major new discovery, this is probably as authoritative an account as can be written of this period based on existing source materials and is well worth the effort. Miss Mariott joined her cat many years ago but I remain grateful to both her and ‘Our Island Story’ for starting me on a rich journey through the past over half a century ago and on which Edwin Pace’s ‘The Long War for Britannia’ is the latest highly enjoyable and engaging milestone.

For anyone with even a passing interest in Dark Age Britain, put this book on ‘ze list’. Finally, since I can’t see how it could easily be improved upon, five mushroom heads it is.

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ARRSE (Army Rumour Service)

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Having read the author’s previous book “Arthur and the Fall of Roman Britain” I was interested to see if this current book offered new insights or was a re-hash of the former. It certainly keeps to its objective of an historical narrative of the events of post Roman Britain and in particular the Saxon incursions. It provides good research on the variation of dates from the sources and in particular explains the ‘stepping stone’ date theory in a world not graced with common date systems. Inevitably given the sources and the distance in time there must be some element of informed opinion in pulling together the history but it works well to provide a thoroughly good read on what in other hands could have easily become a turgid and tiring work.

Michael McCarthy. Battlefield Guide

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