The fall of the Roman Empire was one of the most radical upheavals in the history of mankind, an event that profoundly changed the world. The reasons for what happened were sought in the depravity and satiety of the late Roman civilization, or, on the contrary, in Christianity, alien to the original Roman worldview, which gradually undermined the once most powerful state of the Western world.However, Peter Heather, relying on a colossal amount of scientific facts from the history of barbarian peoples , late antique sources and the latest archaeological data, offers the reader his own, very original hypothesis of the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire.