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The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization

6 best books like The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (Bryan Ward-Perkins): Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization, The World of Late Antiquity 150-750, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
AuthorTom Holland
ISBN0385513119
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,...
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
AuthorAnthony 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
AuthorRichard Miles
ISBN0670022667
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 World of Late Antiquity 150-750
AuthorPeter R.L. Brown
ISBN0393958035
This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750, came to differ from "Classical civilization."

These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared...
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
AuthorPeter Heather
ISBN0195325419
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...
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
AuthorAdrian Goldsworthy
ISBN0300137192
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,...
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