The Fall of Rome

End of a Superpower

By:

Nick Holmes

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CD-Audio

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Releases 11 Jun 2024

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A skilled storyteller, Holmes presents a riveting account of the wars, intrigues and personalities that contributed to Rome's decline, with entire chapters devoted to single battles.' Kirkus Reviews Why did Rome Fall? In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, Nick Holmes presents a new interpretation of an old story. The fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by an environmental disaster. A catastrophic megadrought on the Asian steppes in the fourth century AD forced the migration of entire peoples--Huns, Goths, Vandals, and others--west into the Roman Empire. They met an empire weakened from war with Persia. Rome's misfortunes multiplied as it made tactical errors on the battlefield. Civil war, religious unrest, and political incompetence compounded a worsening situation. The result was one of the greatest disasters in the ancient world--the sack of Rome by the Goths in AD 410.

Author Biography:

Nick Holmes is an author, podcaster, and historian. His passion is Roman history. He is the author of a multi-volume series on the fall of the Roman Empire. It is intended to be the most comprehensive account of this momentous event since Edward Gibbon's legendary History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire over two hundred years ago. Nigel Patterson, British audiobook narrator and AudioFile Earphones Award winner, has many credits as a stage, screen, and voiceover actor that influence his powerful characterization across a broad range of genres. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he is fluent in French and Spanish.

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June 11th, 2024

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