John Man

Broschiertes Buch

Attila The Hun

Beschreibung

He launched two violent attacks against the eastern and western halves of the Roman empire, attacks which earned him his reputation for mindless devastation, and brought an end to Rome's pre-eminence in Europe. Attila was coarse, capricious, arrogant, ruthless and brilliant.

Autor

John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia. After reading German and French at Oxford he did two postgraduate courses, one in the history of science at Oxford, the other in Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. John has written acclaimed and highly successful biographies of Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Kublai Khan as well as Alpha Beta, on the history of the alphabet, and The Gutenberg Revolution, on the invention of printing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780553816587
• ISBN-10: 0553816586
• Artikelnr.: 22426836