How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

9 best books like How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Adrian Goldsworthy): Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra, The Persian Expedition, Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon, The Peloponnesian War, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Author	Tom Holland
ISBN	0385513119

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra

Author	Toby Wilkinson
ISBN	0747599491

I have to say, I really enjoyed this book. My professor may have derisively called it "popular history", but I still love this book.

From first picking it up, it became hard every time I had to put it down. The combination of fluid, easy writing and the fact that this book is packed to the rafters...

The Persian Expedition

Author	Xenophon
ISBN	0140440070

In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. When the Greeks were then betrayed...

Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon

Author	B.H. Liddell Hart
ISBN	0306805839

Scipio Africanus (236–183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in the public memory, due mostly to his daring march through the Alps with his elephants. At the Battle of the Ticinus,...

The Peloponnesian War

Author	Donald Kagan
ISBN	0142004375

For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world’s most respected classical, political, and military historians,...

Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

Author

Anthony Everitt

Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis,” is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. In Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome–the first major account of the emperor in nearly...

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

Author	Richard Miles
ISBN	0670022667

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.

The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians...

The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization

Author	Bryan Ward-Perkins
ISBN	0192807285

Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?

In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian...

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Author	Peter Heather
ISBN	0195325419

A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overtuned the existing strategic...