This volume consists of annotated translations of a selection of late-antique writings. The central text is Victor of Vita's History of the Vandal persecution, a translation of which by John Moorhead appeared in 1990 in Liverpool University Press's Translated Texts for Historians. Readers might therefore be surprised to encounter another translation of this relatively minor, if none the less interesting, work so soon after the first. Martyn, however, makes his rationale clear in his introduction, remarking that Moorhead's version ‘has useful notes, but unfortunately it very often omits words and distorts the sense of the Latin’ (p. xxiii). From then on, this new volume becomes a conversation with Moorhead, who makes regular appearances in the footnotes, usually to have his supposedly manifold errors exposed. Yet things are not what they seem. As quickly becomes apparent, Martyn has used the Latin text from Migne's PL of 1847, as opposed to any of the critical editions (Helm in MGH, AA from 1879; Petschenig in CSEL from 1881; Lancel's Budé from 2002). This not only means that the book and chapter numbers differ from those usually employed for this text, but also that some of Martyn's criticisms of Moorhead, such as for omissions (for example p. 65 n. 54) or emendations (for example p. 35 n. 31), are actually the product of differences between Migne and the critical editions. Elsewhere (p. 60 n. 37) Martyn also ventures a textual emendation from status to flatus, even though this change had already been made by both Helm and Petschenig. While there are a handful of occasions on which Martyn's translation does appear to be clearer or more accurate than Moorhead's, it is very far from sufficient to supersede it. Martyn appends within the translation (as Book Three (B)) a tract De fide orthodoxa contra Arianos, which he informs the reader ‘is considered by almost all scholars to have been written by Saint Ambrose’ (p. 71). The Latin for this is again taken from Migne, even though a critical edition was published in 1975 by Manlio Simonetti, who attributes the work to Gregory of Elvira, as does the CCSL edition of 1967 and the Clavis Patrum Latinorum. The volume also includes the Chronicon of Victor of Tunnuna, the De paenitentia of Victor of Cartenna and the Expositio fidei attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria: of these only the last is currently available in English translation. These, like the rest of the volume, are mostly faithful translations of their respective texts, although Martyn persistently renders the late Roman rank of vir clarissimus as ‘most famous man’. The ‘historical preface’ by David O'Brien contains several generalisations and errors, lacks any references or footnotes, and is best avoided. The volume also contains some egregious mistakes, including that ‘the Vikings’ invaded north Africa in 429 and, on a number of occasions, ‘Migne’ misspelt as ‘Minge’. It is not to be recommended.