The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire by Alessandro Barbero

The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire

Alessandro Barbero with John Cullen (Translator)

180 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative tense slow-paced

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On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace (now western Turkey), the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unforeseen flood of refugees from the East Germanic tribe known as the Goths had arrived at the Empire's...

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