Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians

Tells the tale of Rome's inundation by the barbarian hordes.

Designed to give a broad and general view of the long sequence of the migratory movements of the northern barbarians which began in the third and fourth centuries A.D. and cannot be said to have terminated till the ninth. This long process shaped Europe into its present form, and it must be grasped in its broad outlines in order to understand the framework of modern Europe.

Bury's work remains a classic in the field.