Attila the Gathering of the Storm by William Napier

Author:William Napier [Napier, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Historical, Roman Empire, War & Military
ISBN: 9780312598990
Google: E-7UF4h-dxYC
Amazon: 0312598998
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-06-07T23:00:00+00:00

‘And the great tribes trample the little as they ride.’

Attila nodded. ‘They will bump into the defences of the empire, as the Goths did before them, and starve and die there in their vast, ragged camps on the banks of the Danube, looking across into the promised land of Europe.’

They glanced back one last time. In the eye of a reddening sandstorm from the south-west, the tattered villagers stood looking after them with hopeless longing, too weak to move, hands clutching the smaller withered hands of their offspring standing by their sides, sheltering from the coming sandstorm in their parents’ shadows. Emaciated children naked but for coverings of fine dust, the sun going down on them, the shadows lengthening. And then they would be lost to sight over the rim of the earth as if they had never been.

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