This is the dramatic story of Britain’s most crucial century.

 

Based on an exhaustive re-appraisal of every early source, the book shows how the evidence for a comprehensive history  of this era has been ‘hidden in plain sight’ for centuries, but unrecognized by all previous observers.

 

These early sources also reveal something truly remarkable: a powerful military leader did save Britain from sea-borne invaders in mid-century–and then dominated his island for the next two decades. Known variously as ‘the Proud Tyrant,’ Riothamus and the Dux Bellorum, he was much earlier––and therefore much more Roman—than hitherto suspected.

 

And his death in battle near a very real island later known as Avalon would bring about the end of his world—the ‘fall’ of Roman Britain.