The Celts once dominated the ancient world from Turkey to Ireland. 

They sacked Rome and invaded Greece. 

Their military technology, with its war chariots and iron swords, devastated all adversaries - until they met the Roman legions. 

And then one by one their kingdoms fell to the Empire or were swallowed by the Barbarian invasions. 

Only Britain remained a Celtic stronghold. 

And even there the Scots, Welsh and Irish were forced to fight hard for their independence against successive waves of Anglo Saxons, Norsemen and Anglo-Normans as the Celts were driven out of England and much of Scotland.

This book tells the heroic story of two thousand years of Celtic warfare from four centuries before Christ to the 16th century.

It narrates their dramatic, hard-fought withdrawal before succeeding military powers and celebrates the times when the Celts struck back. 

It uncovers the semi-legendary Dark Ages conflict of the Britons, Scots and Picts and remembers the triumphant Celtic Heroes and warlords of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 

Such a survey of the long and furious struggle of the Celts against Roman, Germanic, Norse and English conquerors has never before been produced. 

Tim Newark's vision of Celtic warfare from the point of view of the Celts is unique. Angus McBride's authentic and exciting colour reconstructions are without equal.