What are the best fact-based history books?

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Collapse of Ancient Rome

ten books

  • R.A. Markus, Christianity in the Roman Empire
  • R.A Markus, The End of Ancient Christianity
  • P. Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom
  • P. Brown, The World of Late Antiquity
  • P. Rousseau, ed., A Companion to late Antiquity
  • Averil Cameron, The Later Roman Empire (fourth century history)
  • E. Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (not sure how "fact based" this 18th century, biased work is, but it is a classic and a masterpiece of scholarship that you should at least be aware of when approaching the "fall of Rome"). I'd check out the J.B Bury edition or the abridgment by D.M Low.
  • G. Halsall. Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568
  • W. Goffart, Barbarians and Romans
  • J. O’Donnell, The Ruin of the Roman Empire
  • B. Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
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