Death of a superpower

..not us silly. Head on over to BetweenTheCovers and listen to a quick interview with Adrian Goldsworthy about his new book How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower.

"[Y]ou've got two and a half centuries...where the Romans are busy killing each other every few years [in civil wars]. It can only have done huge damage, and yet for some reason it never really gets a mention when anyone looks at the fall of the Roman empire," says Adrian Goldsworthy, author of How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower.

Melikie.