Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1776
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 17/02/2014

This is from a Librivox.org recording of the Preface of Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" recorded in English in six volumes. This text covers the history of the Roman Empire from Trajan (117) to Charlemagne (800), to the Fall of Constantinople (1453) and beyond to the demand for the fall of the British Empire. The book was published in 1776.