Stilicho: The Vandal Who Saved Rome

A military history of the campaigns of Stilicho, the army general who became one of the most powerful men in the Western Roman Empire.

Flavius Stilicho lived in one of the most turbulent periods in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present internal revolts and rebellions.

Ian Hughes explains how a Vandal (actually, Stilicho had a Vand...