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The Sword of Attila

by Michael Curtis Ford

First published 2005

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Attila and Flavius Aetius first encounter one another through the late Roman practice of exchanging noble hostages. Each man learns the military customs and political weaknesses of the other’s world before returning home to build power: Attila among the Huns and Aetius within a Western Empire dependent on fragile alliances and rival generals.

Their former familiarity becomes a strategic contest when Attila invades Gaul in 451. Aetius must assemble Romans, Visigoths and other federate forces to oppose him at the Catalaunian Plains, where personal history, imperial survival and control of western Europe converge in one of the last great campaigns conducted in Rome’s name.

Historical Periods

Battle of the Catalaunian Plains451 CE Roman-Hunnic Wars395–453 CE

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Biographical Fiction Court & Political Fiction Historical Sagas War Fiction

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Attilac. 5th century–453

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