The Asding Vandals were an insignificant Germanic tribe with an undistinguished military record who lost most of their battles. Somehow this small tribe not only survived a great migration from modern day Hungary to Africa but also created a Mediterranean kingdom so powerful it could sack Rome. Few books or films feature the Vandals as the key catalyst in the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Yet, if one man can be held responsible for the fall of Rome, then the Vandal King Gaeseric would be the choice of many historians.

The fourth book in the series begins in the winter of 425 with the consolidated groupings of Vandals, Alans and Goths in control of the modern day region of Andalucia in southern Spain. Indeed many believe that Andalucia derives its name from that period when it was known as Vandalucia. After their crushing victory over a major Roman army just a few years earlier the Vandals and their allies had uncontested control over a rich and bountiful province. Yet their new king, Gaeseric, understood that their enemies would eventually return. When the Roman rebel Bonifatius offered the Vandals territory in the Roman African provinces of Mauretania in return for military support, Gaeseric saw an opportunity to move his various peoples into an even richer and significantly safer land. A fleet of ships carried an estimated 80,000 people across the straights of Gibraltar in April 429. Their trek across north Africa to Numidia was an epic journey. Significant battles against the combined armies of the western and eastern Roman empires saw the Vandals, aided by Mauri and Numidian allies, establish control of the African coast from Numidia to Mauretania. The book concludes with a peace treaty by which the Vandals are given official status as Roman federates and allowed to keep the territories they had conquered. But, as book five will detail, the peace would not hold for long.

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