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    At the Gates of Rome by Hollway, Don;

    The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410

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    • Publisher Osprey Publishing
    • Date of Publication 12 May 2022
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781472849984
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages368 pages
    • Size 234x153 mm
    • Weight 698 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 8-page colour plate section
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    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 comrades on the battlefield - rose to prominence on opposite sides of the great game of empire. Roman general Flavius Stilicho, the man behind the Roman throne, dedicated himself to restoring imperial glory, only to find himself struggling for his life against political foes. Alaric, King of the Goths, desired to be a friend of Rome, was betrayed by it, and given no choice but to become its enemy. Battling each other to a standstill, these two warriors ultimately overcame their differences in order to save the empire from enemies on all sides. And when one of them fell, the other took such vengeance as had never been seen in history.

    Don Hollway, author of The Last Viking, combines ancient chroniclers' accounts of Stilicho and Alaric into an unforgettable history of betrayal, politics, intrigue and war for the heart and soul of the Roman Empire.

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    Table of Contents:

    Dramatis Personae
    Chronology
    List of Illustrations
    Author's Note
    Introduction
    Prologue: The Fall of Rome


    PART ONE: AD 378-397
    I. Adrianople
    II. Foederati
    III. A World Divided
    IV. Leaders
    V. The Battle of the Frigidus
    VI. Pater Patriae

    PART TWO: AD 395-408
    VII. Invaders
    VIII. Betrayal
    IX. Triumvirate
    X. Enemies on All Sides
    XI. Barring the Gates
    XII. Barbarians Ascendant
    XIII. Uprising
    XIV. The World Turns
    XV. Invasion
    XVI. Death Renders All Equal
    XVII. "Everything Will Fall to Pieces"
    XVIII. Radagaisus
    XIX. Annus Horribilis
    XX. Contenders for the Throne
    XXI. Overthrow
    XXII. Downfall

    PART THREE: AD 408-410

    XXIII. The New Order
    XXIV. The March on Rome
    XXV. First Siege
    XXVI. Poena Cullei
    XXVII. Second Siege
    XXVIII. Third Siege
    XXIX. The Graveyard of the Romans
    XXX. Finis

    Epilogue: The Triumph of Barbarism
    Sources
    Bibliography
    Index
    Acknowledgments

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