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1) The tombs
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Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through...
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Attila the Hun has the word "barbaric" in spray-painted style across the cover, and this is more than an appellation. He was the symbol of the rise of barbarianism that brought down the Roman Empire. In fascinating detail, the book not only introduces Attila, but gives the backstory on what made the rise of the Huns possible. The exciting yet concise writing brings readers close to the battlefield, but the fighting and intrigue are neatly set against...
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T. Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First [American] edition.
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"For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the Roman Empire and the future of all Europe in his hands. He created the greatest of barbarian forces, and his empire briefly rivaled Rome's. In numerous raids and three major campaigns against the Roman Empire, he earned himself an instant and undying reputation for savagery. But there was more to him than mere barbarism. Attila was capricious, arrogant, brutal, and...
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
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Anticipating an attack by the forces of Attila the Hun in 451 A.D., Roman leaders enlist an ambassador as part of an assassination plot, but when the ambassador is captured, he learns that Attila intends to conquer the entire Roman empire.
9) Attila
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Attila trilogy volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
The dawn of the 5th century AD, and the Roman Empire totters on the edge of the abyss. Already divided into two, the Imperium is looking dangerously vulnerable to her European rivals. The huge barbarian tribes of the Vandals and Visigoths sense that their time is upon them. Unbeknownst to all these great players, a new power is rising in the East. A strange nation of primitive horse-warriors has been striking terror on border peoples for fifty years....
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2007, 2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
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Attila returns to claim the Hun throne after 30 years in exile, then turns his eyes on Rome. Meanwhile conspiracies and rivalries split the Roman empire, and Aëtius, an out-of-favor Roman general, is assigned to save Rome from the Hun invaders. The hitch: Aëtius and Attila are old friends from their exile days.
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Bantam
Pub. Date
c1996
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Hagan, a young Burgundian prince, is sent as a foster son to Attila of the Huns as a peace offering, but when Hagan, in the midst of battle and on the brink of death, discovers the pathway to the otherworld, he realizes that the knowledge makes him a dangerous adversary of the ferocious warlord.
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A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
They employed a brutality which is staggering by today's standards. A fresh look at some of the world's most fascinating, iconic, and truly ruthless leaders, how they came to power and stayed in power, how they treated their subjects, friends and family, demonstrated battlefield leadership and achieved transformations at home.
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