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The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation, by Arther Ferrill (Thames and Hudson, 192 pp., $22.50)

It is a shame that our children are not taught classical history any more (being subjected instead to something called “social studies”), because if they were, they would learn many important lessons. Among them, that progress is not inevitable.

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The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation, by Arther Ferrill (Thames and Hudson, 192 pp., $22.50)

It is a shame that our children are not taught classical history any more (being subjected instead to something called “social studies”), because if they were, they would learn many important lessons. Among them, that progress is not inevitable.