Attila the Hun - Christopher Kelly

* Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through the frontiers of the Roman empire in a savage wave of death and destruction.His reign of terror shattered an imperial worldthat had been securely unified by the conquests of Julius Caesar five centuries before.

* This book goesin search of the real Attila the Hun. For the first time it reveals the history of an astute politician and first-rate military commander who brilliantlyexploited the strengths and weaknesses of the Roman empire.

* We ride with Attila and the Huns from the windswept steppes of Kazakhstan to the opulent city of Constantinople, from the Great Hungarian Plain to the fertile fields of Champagne in France.

* Christopher Kelly utilisesa wealth of original texts- including the only surviving account of the historian who met Attila during a top-secret assassination attempt. This tale ofespionage and counter-intelligenceis one of the most thrilling in the whole of Roman history.

* Challenging our own ideas aboutbarbarians and Romans, imperialism and civilisation, terrorists and superpowers, this is the absorbing story of an extraordinary and complex individual who helped to bring down an empire andforced the map of Europe to be redrawn forever.