Reddit reviews Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire

Start with the books of Adrian Goldsworthy, the author of many well regarded books on Roman history, including biographies and especially Roman military history.

Simon Baker's Ancient Rome is also a good "one volume" history of the Eternal City.

Finally, Peter Heather published a new history on the fall of Rome called The Fall of the Roman Empire a few years ago that received lots of praise. I haven't read this, but the reviews looked good.

I'm really enjoying this one - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Rome-Rise-Fall-Empire/dp/1846072840

I'm reading Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire by Simon Baker right now. It's a great book!

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Rome-Rise-Fall-Empire/dp/1846072840

Assuming you read in English and are interested in the history of some of the sites, I suggest reading this book before you go:

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Rome-Rise-Fall-Empire/dp/1846072840

It has a nice pace to it if you're into Roman history and will give you an idea of what happened at various places, or even might spark some new ideas on what you want to see in and around Rome. If I could do it again, I'd have read this or something like it before my first visit to Rome. If the history interests you, then you end up getting a lot more out of the sightseeing than just being out looking at stuff.

In the last six months it has to be "Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire" by Simon Baker. If you are going to read just one book on Rome, read this one. The man can write and had me hooked for days on end. Plus it ignited my current interest in the early European history, especially about the Franks and Eastern Empire after partition. Great stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh7rdCYCQ_U

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307700763/?tag=freedradio-20



Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire by Simon Baker
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1846072840/?tag=freedradio-20


The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer
http://www.amazon.com/dp/039305974X/?tag=freedradio-20


The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire by Anthony Everitt
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812978153/?tag=freedradio-20


A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0871404230/?tag=freedradio-20


Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1400078970/?tag=freedradio-20


The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195325419/?tag=freedradio-20


The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman
http://www.amazon.com/dp/039332169X/?tag=freedradio-20


The Fate Of Empires by Sir John Glubb
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf