Failure of Empire - Noel Lenski - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk
Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. This book presents the biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (AD 364-78).