As a result of the Battle of Hastings the late Anglo- Saxon army has had a bad press. But it also had its victories - Stamford Bridge and campaigns in Scotland and Ireland. Taking a close look at its history, organisation, tactics and equipment, Ian Stephenson concludes that the army in the late Anglo-Saxon state was a part of the mainstream of military developments in this era. Moreover, in terms of tactical diversity the late English army was not only adaptive but also innovative, taking over continental ideas and changing them to suit the conditions of warfare that affected the late English state. This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Anglo-Saxon army; the existing books are either on the Vikings or the Normans.