Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin

Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome

Douglas Boin

272 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
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Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, s...

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