How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

Synopsis

A major new history of the fall of the roman empire, by the prizewinning author of caesar in ad 200, the roman empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, roman rule had vanished in western europe and much of northern africa, and only a shrunken eastern empire remained. In his account of the fall of the roman empire, prizewinning author adrian goldsworthy examines the painful centuries of the superpower’s decline.