Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568

For centuries, Rome was one of the world''s largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms first nominally under Imperial rule and then, one by one, beyond it.Imperial Tragedy tells the story of Rome''s gradual collapse. Full of pala...