Product Overview
King Arthurs Wars describes one of the biggest archaeological finds of our times; yet there is nothing new to see. There are secrets hidden in plain sight. We speak English today, because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman Britain. How did that happen? There is little evidence: not much archaeology, and even less written history. There is, however, a huge amount of speculation. King Arthurs Wars brings an entirely new approach to the subject. The answers are out there, in the countryside, waiting to be found. Months of field work and map study allow us to understand, for the first time, how the Anglo-Saxons conquered England; county by county and decade by decade. King Arthurs Wars exposes what the landscape and the place names tell us. As a result, we can now know far more about this Dark Age. What is so special about Essex? Why is Buckinghamshire an odd shape? Why is the legend of King Arthur so special to us? Why dont Cumbrian farmers use English numbers when they count sheep? Why dont we know where Camelot was? Why did the Romano-British stop eating oysters? What does this have to do with Napoleons Ulm campaign of 1805, or the Prusso-Danish War of 1864? King Arthurs Wars tells that story.
