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Constantinople and the Crisis of the Third Century
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Hello, sorry to bother you with this. I'm a Goodreads Author and my latest book hasn't been added to my profile although it exists in the Goodreads da
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"Rome and Attila was a great book that attempts to chronicle both the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the impact that Attila the Hun had on the world at the time.
In this, it mostly succeeds. Holmes uses what scant sources we have of the ti" Read more of this review » |
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"This is another compelling addition to Nick Holmes' series on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. In this concise yet deeply informative book, Holmes skillfully navigates the chaotic final decades of the Western Roman Empire, shedding light on "
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"The third of Nick Holmes' books on the end of the Roman Empire covers from the sacking of Rome in 410 through the death of Attila in 453, and then the end of Western Roman administration in 476.
The good news is that the transition between The Fall of" Read more of this review » |
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"Still interesting but not quite on par with the previous two series books."
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Hello, I wondered if you might be able to add the latest book to my series on the Fall of the Roman Empire? The book is called 'Justinian's Empire' an
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Hi, sorry to be a pain! I'm a Goodreads Author but I can't add my latest book to my page since there are several other authors with the same name. The
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Thanks Tami so much for restoring them! Hopefully they'll stay there from now on fingers crossed!
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Thank you so much! Sorry I will direct this to the appropriate folder in future. Good weekend!
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“At the heart of Byzantium was its capital, Constantinople, now modern Istanbul. Today it may look like a Turkish city but it contains an old city that was once a huge Roman metropolis and the largest city in Europe for nearly 1,000 years. Even today it has the remains of almost as many Roman buildings as Rome itself – towering walls and aqueducts, huge pillared underground cisterns, and churches that still dominate the modern skyline.”
― The Byzantine World War
― The Byzantine World War
“how did a small city state rise from total obscurity to become one of the greatest empires in history?”
― The Roman Revolution
― The Roman Revolution
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“At the heart of Byzantium was its capital, Constantinople, now modern Istanbul. Today it may look like a Turkish city but it contains an old city that was once a huge Roman metropolis and the largest city in Europe for nearly 1,000 years. Even today it has the remains of almost as many Roman buildings as Rome itself – towering walls and aqueducts, huge pillared underground cisterns, and churches that still dominate the modern skyline.”
― The Byzantine World War
― The Byzantine World War
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