Books: Rome didn't really fall " it was pushed The Fall of the Roman Empire By Peter Heather MACMILLAN pounds 25 pounds 22.50 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897

The Independent on Sunday | July 3, 2005| | Copyright

The complex answer to why the western Roman Empire fell in AD476 would embrace sluggish population growth, manpower shortages, decline in military efficiency, training and matriel, fiscal incompetence and corruption, devaluation, hyperinflation and other dull stuff. The simple and much more Hollywood answer is: Rome was destroyed by Attila the Hun. Peter Heather's achievement is to show that both answers are valid.

Some historians, convinced that the drier they can make history sound, the higher their credentials in the world of academe, argue that the Roman Empire didn't really fall. Thanks ...

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