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

10 best books like The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Peter Heather): Alexander the Great, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, 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, Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization, The Roman Revolution, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Alexander the Great
AuthorRobin Lane Fox
ISBN0141020768
From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time.

Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense...
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
AuthorDavid W. Anthony
ISBN0691058873
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery...
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
AuthorAnthony Everitt
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams

He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted...
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,...
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
AuthorToby Wilkinson
ISBN0747599491
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...
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
AuthorLars Brownworth
ISBN0307407950
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for...
The Roman Revolution
AuthorRonald Syme
ISBN0192803204
The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference...
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
AuthorBryan Ward-Perkins
ISBN0192807285
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...
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,...
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
AuthorJack Weatherford
Genghis Khan and his Mongol Horde were good news for the world. Really. Not convinced? Consider the following:

1. Genghis Khan was an advocate of human rights, specifically freedom of religion, freedom from torture and free trade (he got two of the Four Freedoms right, which is pretty impressive...
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
AuthorAnthony Everitt
ISBN1400061288
He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow....
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