The end of empire
Subtitle: Attila the Hun and the fall of Rome
By: Christopher Kelly.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780393061963
Subjects: Attila, -- d. 453; Huns -- Biography; Huns -- History; Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476
Genres: Biography
Work titles: Attila the Hun
Description: Christopher Kelly's bold account of Attila the Hun as empire builder and political threat to Rome.

Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. But, as the Romans of the fifth century knew, Attila did more than just terrorize villages on the edge of an empire.

Drawing on original texts, this riveting narrative follows Attila and the Huns from the steppes of Kazakhstan to the opulent city of Constantinople and the Great Hungarian Plain, uncovering an unlikely marriage proposal, a long-standing relationship with a treacherously ambitious Roman general, and a thwarted Roman assassination plot. Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome reframes the warrior king as a political strategist, capturing the story of how a small, but dedicated, opponent dealt a seemingly invincible empire defeats from which it would never recover.
Notes: Originally published: Attila the Hun: barbarian terror and the fall of the Roman Empire. London : Bodley Head, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.