The fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of Germanic kingdoms

The book of Rigobert Gunter and Alexander Korsunsky is dedicated to the greatest turning point in European history - the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The authors tell how the empire retreated under the blows of barbaric tribes, and the Roman military leaders at that time vied with the emperors and attracted the same barbarians to their service as, finally, the commander of the mercenaries Odoacr, or the GOT, or the GUNN, forced, forced him to The renunciation of the last emperor Romulus Augustus became the king of Italy, as the king of Ostrogot Theodorich the Great personally killed the Odoacra and won the entire Apennine Peninsula and Sicily. The history of the emergence of the Roman Empire of the first kingdoms, Vandals and Alans, Franks, Svevs, Anglo -Svsaks and Britons, Burgundians, Langobards is also described in detail.
Rigobert Gunter (1928-2000)-Antikist historian, professor of Leipzig University, the main sphere of scientific interests-late antiquity. Alexander Korsunsky (1914-1980)-Medievist historian, professor of Moscow State University, specialist in the history of early medieval states