Attila The Hun by Christopher Kelly
Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity.
Christopher Kelly..gives a fine account of this complex story, unpicking its strands cleanly and persuasively * Literary Review *
Learned, fluent and often witty study of the great Hunnish leader...Kelly is ideally qualified to write this account -- Tom Holland * Daily Telegraph *
Acute and entertaining biography set against the fall of the Roman Empire * Metro *
Gripping * The Times *
Learned, fluent and often witty study of the great Hunnish leader...Kelly is ideally qualified to write this account -- Tom Holland * Daily Telegraph *
Acute and entertaining biography set against the fall of the Roman Empire * Metro *
Gripping * The Times *
Christopher Kelly is a historian and classicist. He read classics and law at the University of Sydney in Australia before taking his doctorate at Trinity College, Cambridge. He stayed at Cambridge and is now a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and was for five years its Senior Tutor. In 2006 he was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. His previous books include Ruling the Later Roman Empire (Harvard, 2004) and The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2006).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844139156 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844139158 |
| Title | Attila The Hun |
| Author | Christopher Kelly |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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