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Yxcl Thailand yxcl — The more I look around at the world political situation, the more interested I become in the later Roman Empire. Having just finished Alessandro Barbero's book The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire, I think that it is a worthy contribution to the historical literature of the era -- though I think that Barbero would most likely not agree with the subtitle that the publishers attached to his book. As he writes regarding the aftermath of the battle of Adrianople: Yet dramatic interpretations of this sort -- what might be called the "clash of civilizations" reading of history -- do not stand up very well under close examination. The Roman army was too large an organism to die in a single battle; in fact, it kept on fighting for several centuries, and did so rather well. Besides, it was already changing of its own accord. To imagine a radical difference between the two armies of [Eastern Roman Emperor] Valens and [Ruler of the Goths] Fritigern, identifying the former with the Roman past and the latter with the medieval future, is to believe that Rome and the barbarians were two separate realities unconnected with each other. In reality, the two armies were almost identical, constituted in more or less the same way and armed with the same weapons. It is this type of nuanced approach that makes Barbero such fascinating reading. The author of earlier books on Waterloo and on Charlemagne's empire, Barbero is a historian whose work is worth tracking.