Introduction -- The early years -- The military life -- The hour of destiny -- Opposing commanders -- When war is done -- Inside the mind -- A life in words.
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One of the most powerful men in late antiquity, Attila's peerless Hunnic empire stretched from the Ural to the Rhine river. In a series of epic campaigns dating from the AD 430s until his death in AD 453, he ravaged first the Eastern and later the Western Roman Empire, invading Italy in AD 452 and threatening Rome itself.