The nomadic empire of the Huns under Attila and his predecessors, which dominated the Eurasian steppe and terrorized both the Western and Eastern Roman Empires before collapsing rapidly after Attila's death in 453.
Collapsed through internal succession struggles after Attila's death (453 AD); the last Hunnic ruler Dengizich died in battle against the Eastern Romans in 469, marking the empire's final end.
An in-print, general-reader history of Attila's empire and its clash with Rome.
Situates the Huns within the late-Roman crisis; argues the Hunnic pressure on Gothic peoples was the proximate cause of the 376 crossing of the Danube and ultimately the fall of the West.
Offers an alternative reading in which Roman internal weakness rather than Hunnic pressure was the primary driver — essential contrast to Heather for understanding the Hunnic Empire's actual impact.