![]() Alliances, betrayal, assassination, gory battles, torture, and cruelty mark this blood-soaked historical, and Napier describes it all vividly and with sword-pounding impact. The hitch: Aëtius and Attila are old friends from their exile days. Napier also smartly tells of events on the Roman side as conspiracies and rivalries split the Roman empire, and Aëtius, an out-of-favor Roman general, is tasked with saving Rome from the Hun invaders. Attila, bitter and full of hatred for Rome (and pretty much everybody else), is determined to destroy the Roman and Chinese empires, and the book is rife with Attila's bloody machinations as he murders his rivals, slaughters enemy armies, and uses guile and deception to amass allies. ![]() ![]() ![]() as Attila returns to claim the Hun throne after 30 years in exile. The colorful story is told by a Roman scribe, Priscus of Panium, and begins in 441 A.D. One who wanted to destroy the world, and one who fought one final battle to save it. It is a story of two men: Attila the Hun and Aetius the Roman. ![]() Thus begins a saga of warfare, lust and power which brings the whole of the Christian world to its knees - and ends in blood on the fields of France. The pseudonymous Napier continues his excellent portrayal of Attila's turbulent life in this second installment to his trilogy (after Attila His name is Attila - 'the Scourge of God'. ![]()
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