FIRST KINGDOM: BRITAIN IN THE AGE OF ARTHUR

Somewhere in the shadow time between the departure of the Roman legions in the early fifth century and the arrival in Kent of Augustine's Christian mission at the end of the sixth, the kingdoms of Early Medieval Britain were formed. But by whom? And out of what? Stripping away the more lurid claims made for a warrior-hero named Arthur, this book synthesises the research carried out over the last forty years to tease out the strands of reality from the myth.