Slave of the Huns;
Geza Gardonyi, Andrew Feldmar, Victor C. Ambrus
Hardcover
(Bobbs-Merrill, March 15, 1969)
First published in Hungary under the title Lathatatlan Ember in 1901. The narrator and hero of the novel is a young Byzantine freedman who falls in love with the daughter of a Hunnish nobleman and commits himself to slavery among the Huns in the hope of eventually marrying her. Set around the time of Attila, the novel includes dramatic accounts of the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains between the Huns and the Romans, and of Attila's funeral.