Fields of Mars: A New History of the Fall of the Roman Empire

A remarkable history of the end of the Roman Empire that captures the atmosphere and immediacy of a watershed moment in human civilization.

In Fields of Mars, Oxford-trained classicist and polyglot Daniel Metcalfe brilliantly reconstructs, almost year by year, the astonishingly rapid unravelling of the Roman Empire, showing how a state that seemed militarily dominant, economically robust, and politically fairly stable could unravel within the space of a few generations.

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