the fall of the roman empire by peter heather

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It's like describing a football game between two teams the reader doesn't care about), you'll love it. Otherwise, please don't tell me about it. But if you care about the subject matter, and have a higher tolerance for blow by blow military history than I do (you know what matters about a battle? Who won, and maybe why. Sometimes you don't need a story, you know? Sometimes you don't need to repeat every single fact about the Huns to make the argument that the Huns are important for understanding the fall of Rome. It turns out that taking account of pretty much every factor, and telling a good story about each of them in clear sentences can make a really dull book. His case is well laid out and convincing: the fall of Rome in the west can only be understood in the context of profound changes in other parts of Eurasia, which forced populations to move, alliances to change, and so on.īut honestly, this is far too long. Heather's sentences are very readable, he tells a good story, he takes into account pretty much every factor you possibly could to explain the 'fall' of the Empire (including the possibility that it wasn't a fall etc.), and he addresses major scholarly debates. My rating is unfair: this is a very good book, that will appeal to all kinds of readers.

The fall of the roman empire by peter heather