Attila: King of the Huns: new in paperback: The Man and the Myth - Brossura

Howarth, Mr Patrick

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ISBN 10: 184119428X ISBN 13: 9781841194288

Casa editrice: Robinson, 2001

Riassunto

The infamous fifth-century king Attila has long suffered from the reputation he gained at the hands of the early Christian chroniclers, who believed he had been sent to punish people for their sins. Later Italian artists portrayed him with horns. He has featured equally unsympathetically in the Nibelungenlied and in Hollywood epics, and the enduring picture remains with us of a pitiless and bloodthirsty tyrant. Yet in this readable and revealing life of Attila, Patrick Howarth gives the more rounded view of the king's intimate friends, to whom he appeared a wise and tolerant leader, one capable of clemency, though a fearsomely successful warlord.

Attila reigned for only eight years. In that time he consolidated an empire that extended to the Caspian sea, while he came near to toppling the Roman Empire in both East and West. His armies marched through France and Italy, capturing one great city after another, yet he never advanced on Rome, but mysteriously abandoned the campaign and left Italy after a dramatic meeting with Pope Leo the Great.

This is a new paperback edition of Patrick Howarth's thrilling work of historical reconstruction, which draws on the wealth of evidence from modern archaeological finds, as well as Hungarian sources not previously known in the West, to give this first authentic account of the life of Attila.

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The true story of the warlord who was called 'the Scourge of God'

The true story of the warlord who was called 'the Scourge of God'
The true story of the warlord who was called 'the Scourge of God'
The true story of the warlord who was called 'the Scourge of God'
The true story of the warlord who was called 'the Scourge of God'
The true story of the warlord who was called 'the Scourge of God'
The true story of the warlord who was called 'the Scourge of God'

L'autore

Patrick Howarth is the author of numerous works of history, biography and criticism, including The Year is 1851 and George VI. Eight programmes of his poetry have been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. A former diplomat, serving in Special Operations, he has broadcast for the BBC in five languages. He lives in Sherborne, Dorset.

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• Editore: Robinson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 184119428X
• ISBN 13: 9781841194288
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224