Don Hollway: At the Gates of Rome

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Cover: 9781472849977 | At the Gates of Rome | The Battle for a Dying Empire | Don Hollway

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Beschreibung

A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome 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.

Über den Autor

Don Hollway

Zusammenfassung

Don Hollway's previous book, The Last Viking (September 2021), published to rave reviews and was featured in The Times, The Daily Express and The Washington Post.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	368
ISBN-13:	9781472849977
ISBN-10:	1472849973
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hollway, Don
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	198 x 130 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Don Hollway
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,302 kg