The Huns
This is a history of the Huns in Europe from their first attacks on the Goths north of the Black Sea to the collapse of their central European empire after the death of the legendary Attila. In the only connected narrative account of the rise and fall of the Huns in English, Professor Thompson...
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This is a history of the Huns in Europe from their first attacks on the Goths north of the Black Sea to the collapse of their central European empire after the death of the legendary Attila. In the only connected narrative account of the rise and fall of the Huns in English, Professor Thompson reconstructs their campaigns in detail from disparate and often fragmentary sources. In the process, there emerges a clear picture of their dramatic successes, and failures, against the non-Roman peoples of central and eastern Europe, and of their many invasions of the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780631214434 (0631214437)
ASIN: 631214437
Publish date: May 4th 1999
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pages no: 326
Edition language: English
Anthony Quinn as Attila wearing surely the most absurd helmet in the history of cheapo film productions. The nation of the Huns, scarcely known to ancient documents, dwelt beyond the Maeotic marshes beside the frozen ocean, and surpassed every extreme of ferocity. - Ammianus Marcellinus Attila...
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