I'm looking for a book that covers the Gothic tribes' involvement in the fall of Western Rome and what came after. I've found a couple of books by Heather and Halsall (Empires and Barbarians, and Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, respectively) that look like they cover what I'm interested in, however it looks like their target audiences are academics, which I am certainly not. I suspect those books might be a bit dry or over my head.
Does anyone know of any books that cover this subject and are approachable to those casually interested?
Not a complete book, but the chapters "Rome", "The Germanic Background", "The Invasions" and "Towards Synthesis" in Perry Anderson's, I'd say, classic work; Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism(NLB, 1974, London).
While it isn't a work focused exactly on the invasions and on Völkerwanderungen in relation to the fall of Rome, Anderson's account is extremely well written and approachable, and presents the multiple factors that led to the fall of Rome in a way that is extremely good as a basis for further studies. I am not shy to admit, that Anderson (and the dear Rodney Hilton ofc.) were perhaps the historians who dragged my studies away from 19th century labour history (which still holds a dear place in my heart,) and onto feudalism, in particular central European feudalism.