The Fall of Rome: A Novel of a World Lost - Softcover

Ford, Michael Curtis

 
9780312945282: The Fall of Rome: A Novel of a World Lost

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476 A.D. The Roman Empire, staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts and riddled with corruption, now faces its greatest challenge—not only to its power and prestige, but to its very existence…

He reduced Concordia, Altinum, and Patavium to ashes, captured Verona and Milan. He was the most dangerous enemy Rome had ever known. The legacy of Attila the Hun, once thought destroyed on the battlefield, has re-emerged to defy the power of the Western World. Now it’s the sons of Attila’s chief military commanders who are waging battle with one another as the dramatic confrontation between the Emperor and Rome’s barbarian conqueror leads to the thrilling conclusion that becomes the end of the greatest civilization on earth.




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MICHAEL CURTIS FORD has worked variously as a laborer, a ski patrolman, a musician, a consultant, a banker, a Latin teacher, and a translator. He holds degrees in economics and linguistics and lives in Oregon, where he and his wife educate their three children at home. The Fall of Rome is his fifth novel.

Please visit his Web site at www.michaelcurtisford.com.



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476 A.D. The Roman Empire, staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts and riddled with corruption, now faces its greatest challenge not only to its power and prestige, but to its very existence

An epic struggle. A final blow. A future lost to fate

He reduced Concordia, Altinum, and Patavium to ashes, captured Verona and Milan. He was the most dangerous enemy Rome had ever known. The legacy of Attila the Hun, once thought destroyed on the battlefield, has re-emerged to defy the power of the Western World. Now it s the sons of Attila s chief military commanders who are waging battle with one another as the dramatic confrontation between the Emperor and Rome s barbarian conqueror leads to the thrilling conclusion that becomes the end of the greatest civilization on earth.

THE FALL OF ROME

Fans [and] history buffs will admire the author s research as he recounts the final bloody decades of the Roman Empire. Publishers Weekly



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ISBN 10:  0312333625 ISBN 13:  9780312333621
Verlag: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007
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