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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 3
Edward GibbonSeries: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire3.8
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This final volume of Gibbon's celebrated work covers 1185 A.D.—1453 A.D. and explores the rise of Islam, the Crusades, the invention of gunpowder, Genghis Khan and the Mongol invasions, the Turkish conquests, and the beginning of the Renaissance.
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"I set out upon...Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated both by the story and the style. ...I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all."
Winston Chruchill
"[Gibbon] stood on the summit of the Renaissance achievement and looked back over the waste of history to ancient Rome, as from one mountain top to another."
Christopher Dawson
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