At the Gates of Rome: The Battle for a Dying Empire, Don Holloway

At the Gates of Rome: The Battle for a Dying Empire, Don HollowayNew Paperback A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths. It took little more than a single generation for the centuries old Roman Empire to fall. In those critical decades, while Christians and pagans, legions and barbarians, generals and politicians squabbled over dwindling scraps of power, two men former

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