Title: How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World
Subtitle: The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars who Razed the Old World and Formed the New
Description: Veteran author Thomas J. Craughwell reveals the fascinating tales of how the barbarian rampages across Europe, North Africa, and Asia -- killing, plundering, and destroying whole kingdoms and empires -- actually created the modern nations of England, France, Russia, and China.
Subjects: Migrations of nations, Middle Ages, History, Nonfiction, Rome, history, germanic invasions, 3rd-6th centuries