"Thorough and convincing... likely to become the standard work on the subject." Library Journal

"Highly readable." Medieval Literature

"A major work of synthesis." Walter E. Kaegi

"Burns has achieved much for the modern study of Ostrogoths." Antiquaries Journal

"Excellent." --The Reader's Review

"Thomas Burns takes us thoroughly through this moment of crisis, giving us a precise analysis of the principal players in this period of transition."--Military Illustrated

"The book is well-written and throws new light on the events in the West a short while before the Fall of the Empire. Highly recommended " --The Journal of Indo-European Studies

"With this impressive study Burns has greatly enriched late antique scholarship." --Religious Studies Review

"This is a substantial and well documented book which has reminded me that the...