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5.0

This is a book that sheds a new light on an old subject. Take what you think you know about the fall of the Roman Empire and throw that out the window. And the Byzantine Empire while you're at it.

This book gives a broad overview of a world that is wildly different from what history has always told us (us being the uninitiated, scholar-lite readers like myself). But that is nonetheless engaging and entertaining to read about.
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