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1) Barbarians
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Reconstructs the history and conquests of the barbarian tribes, specifically the Vikings, Huns, Goths, and Mongols, through dramatic reenactments and interviews. Vikings sails with the Norsemen from Arabia to the New World, stopping off for a bit of pillaging along the way. Goths reveals why this once-fearsome people subjected themselves to Roman rule, only to rise up again at the battle of Adrianople. Mongols rides with Genghis Khan and his descendants...
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Series
Publisher
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Language
English
Description
Attila the Hun has the word "barbaric" in spray-painted style across the cover, and this is more than an appellation. He was the symbol of the rise of barbarianism that brought down the Roman Empire. In fascinating detail, the book not only introduces Attila, but gives the backstory on what made the rise of the Huns possible. The exciting yet concise writing brings readers close to the battlefield, but the fighting and intrigue are neatly set against...
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Language
English
Description
The story of Mulan, the highly spirited girl who always tried to please her parents. So to save her father from going to war, she boldly disguises herself as a man to go in his place. Mulan's great spirit and her feisty companion Mushu, enable her to courageously battle the Hun invaders.
Author
Publisher
T. Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the Roman Empire and the future of all Europe in his hands. He created the greatest of barbarian forces, and his empire briefly rivaled Rome's. In numerous raids and three major campaigns against the Roman Empire, he earned himself an instant and undying reputation for savagery. But there was more to him than mere barbarism. Attila was capricious, arrogant, brutal, and...
6) Rome
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Using dramatic reenactments, state of the art cinematography, location shooting, CGI and 3-D animation, historians and experts talk about Rome.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Anticipating an attack by the forces of Attila the Hun in 451 A.D., Roman leaders enlist an ambassador as part of an assassination plot, but when the ambassador is captured, he learns that Attila intends to conquer the entire Roman empire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Hagan, a young Burgundian prince, is sent as a foster son to Attila of the Huns as a peace offering, but when Hagan, in the midst of battle and on the brink of death, discovers the pathway to the otherworld, he realizes that the knowledge makes him a dangerous adversary of the ferocious warlord.
13) Attila
Author
Series
Attila trilogy volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The dawn of the 5th 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. Unbeknownst to all these great players, a new power is rising in the East. A strange nation of primitive horse-warriors has been striking terror on border peoples for fifty years....
15) Barbarians I
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Reconstructs the history and conquests of the barbarian tribes, specifically the Vikings, Huns, Goths, and Mongols, through dramatic reenactments and interviews. Vikings sails with the Norsemen from Arabia to the New World, stopping off for a bit of pillaging along the way. Goths reveals why this once-fearsome people subjected themselves to Roman rule, only to rise up again at the battle of Adrianople. Mongols rides with Genghis Khan and his descendants...