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The Scourge of God
- Attila, Book 1
- Narrated by: Mark Topping
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
A stunning historical novel - the first in an epic trilogy about the rise and fall of one of history's greatest villains.
The dawn of the fifth century AD and the Roman Empire totters on the edge of the abyss. Already divided into two, the Imperium is looking dangerously vulnerable to her European rivals. The huge barbarian tribes of the Vandals and Visigoths sense that their time is upon them.
But, unbeknown to all of these great players, a new power is rising in the East. A strange nation of primitive horse warriors has been striking terror upon border peoples for 50 years. But few realise what is about to happen. For these so called 'Huns' now have a new leader. His name is Attila - 'the Scourge of God'.
Thus begins a saga of warfare, lust and power which brings the whole of the Christian world to its knees - and ends in blood on the fields of France. It is a story of two men: Attila the Hun and Aetius the Roman. One who wanted to destroy the world, and one who fought one final battle to save it....
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- Asante Lawla
- 25-01-23
story is a bit lacking
great writing with tons of depth and character, equally good performance, but story is a bit lacking
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- EddyB1
- 02-08-22
Attila: The Scourge of God
Really enjoyable, pretty fast paced book. Couple mispronunciations at times, but they’re uncommon words. All in all an enjoyable listen.
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- Delo
- 12-11-22
Historical Fiction is the Thing!!
So like Conn Igulden in creating powerful stories within the histories we are familiar with.
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- nigel screen
- 13-12-22
Read it start of a quality trilogy
Read it start of a quality trilogy , good story well written and well read
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- Mr. Anthony D. Bateman
- 10-05-23
youngsters
this first part follows the early teen yrs of attilla, his escape attempts from Rome, and the friends he makes.
really interesting links to those who will play a part in one of Europe's bloodiest campaigns.
the writing is mostly good, save one tirade of foul language, and a couple of dream sequences, but these do not spoil the story.
the narrator however took a dozen chapters before the reading of a book changed to an actor, as audible narrators should, and made the story better.
book 2 bought, can't wait.
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- eBaron
- 06-10-22
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A note to the author.
At the time of Attila the Roman Catholic Church was not in existence. It was born almost 500 years later when the Bishop of Rome (Pope) demanded the official language of Christianity to be changed from Greek to Latin. The rest of the Bishops thought it was a disgrace to change the language that the gospels were written and the language that the early Christians adopted in their flight against the Romans. The result was the schism of the Christian Church to Orthodox in the east and Catholic in the west.
I believe that no Pope visited Greece for 1000 years after the schism until less than 10 years ago when he traveled to the Mount Athos (capitol of the Orthodox church) and ask for forgiveness.
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- Lee
- 06-05-24
A made up childhood and nothing more
I was expecting this to skip through Attila’s (unknown) childhood and onto more interesting events, but this never did. Ironically the most interesting character is a side character that has no bearing on anything. Skip it.
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