 | The Early Germans (The Peoples of Europe) by Malcolm Todd
Buy new: $32.26 / Used from: $25.62 Interesting overview of the main Germanic groups. Among the East Germans, includes the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals, Gepids, Burgundians.
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 | The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians by J. B. Bury
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.99 Classic.
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 | The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples by Herwig Wolfram
Buy new: $52.00 / Used from: $2.05 |
 | Germanic Warrior AD 236-568 by Simon MacDowall
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $10.85 Includes useful information about weaponry and some wonderful illustrations of Visigoths and Ostrogoths.
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 | Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1700 by Erik Hildinger
Buy new: $11.93 / Used from: $6.49 Although not specifically about East Germanic peoples, this is a useful book for understanding what set the Vandals and the Goths in particular apart from the other Germanic peoples culturally and militarily.
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 | Adrianople AD 378: The Goths crush Rome's legions (Campaign) by Simon MacDowall
Buy used from: $9.98 The Goths apply the lessons learned from the steppe warriors: shock cavalry tactics and mobility.
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 | The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire by Alessandro Barbero
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.66 A highly readable, popular account of the Battle of Adrianople.
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 | The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture by Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen
Buy used from: $2.99 The Turkic Huns were at different times allies and enemies of the Goths. This scholarly work contains virtually everything worth knowing about them.
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 | The Goths (The Peoples of Europe) by Peter Heather
Buy new: $27.70 / Used from: $13.71 These aren't your pasty-faced, rave-going, dark-attired punk rock fans.
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 | The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $2.39 Kings of Geats - possibly connected with the ancestral home of the Goths.
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 | The Gothic History of Jordanes (Christian Roman Empire series vol 2) by Jordanes
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $13.54 Order yours now!
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| The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise (Nelson's Icelandic Texts)
Buy used from: $250.00 Wars between the Goths and Huns.
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 | Goths in the Fourth Century (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians)
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 | History of the Goths by Herwig Wolfram
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $4.50 A very dense, heavily-footnoted account which is best taken in small doses.
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 | Procopius, Vol. 3, Books 5-6.15: History of the Wars (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Greek Edition) by Procopius
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $47.56 |
 | Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric (Key Conflicts of Classical Antiquity) by Michael Kulikowski
Buy new: $20.52 / Used from: $13.00 |
 | A History of the Ostrogoths by Thomas S. Burns
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $2.72 |
 | The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology)
Buy new: $115.00 / Used from: $106.08 |
 | The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century: An Ethnographic Perspective (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology)
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $34.00 |
 | The Visigoths: Studies in Culture and Society (Medieval Mediterranean) by Alberto Ferreiro
Buy new: $208.00 / Used from: $99.99 |
 | Visigothic Spain 409 - 711 (A History of Spain) by Roger Collins
Buy new: $104.95 / Used from: $76.99 |
 | Vandals to Visigoths: Rural Settlement Patterns in Early Medieval Spain by Karen Eva Carr
Buy new: $75.00 / Used from: $40.00 |
 | Procopius: History of the Wars, Vol. 2, Books 3-4: Vandalic War (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Greek Edition) by Procopius
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $15.00 Twilight of the Vandals.
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| The Late Roman West and the Vandals (Variorum Collected Studies, Cs 401) by Frank M. Clover
Buy new: $140.00 / Used from: $176.08 |
 | The North African Provinces from Diocletian to the Vandal Conquest by Brian Herbert Warmington
Buy used from: $106.26 |
 | Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa
Buy new: $130.00 / Used from: $125.97 |
 | Italy and Her Invaders: 376-476. Volume 2. Book II. The Hunnish Invasion; Book III. The Vandal Invasion and the Herulian Mutiny by Thomas Hodgkin
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $68.54 |
| The Barbian invastions of the Roman Empire Vol 2 The Huns and the Vandals
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 | Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
Buy used from: $598.97 An interesting novel based on some of the events of Procopius, notably the destruction of the Vandalic kingdom in North Africa and The East Romans' Wars against the Goths in Italy.
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 | The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Old East Germanic legends - Burgundians.
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 | Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum by Warwick William Wroth
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $57.92 |
| Everyday Life of the Barbarians: Goths, Franks, & Vandals by Malcolm Todd
Buy used from: $0.68 I haven't read this, but recommend it based on my enjoyment of Todd's book on the early Germans.
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 | Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages by Orrin Robinson
Buy new: $15.23 / Used from: $11.74 I keep this book at my bedside. This is a great resource for the oldest attested Germanic languages, as well as more specific information about the Gothic language and the position of East Germanic within Germanic. I might add parenthetically that the author's introductory chapter is one of the finest expositions of the principles of comparative linguistics that I've ever read.
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 | The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy, 318-381 by R. Hanson
Buy new: $37.12 / Used from: $29.98 Arianism was the primary form of Christianity proselytized among the Goths and Vandals.
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 | When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $0.20 |
 | Asterix and the Goths by Rene Goscinny
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $5.75 If you made it this far, you've earned some light reading.
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 | Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion Expansion Pack
Buy new: $34.49 / Used from: $6.00 Rewrite history as Alaric or Geiseric.
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