Flavius Aetius: Blood on the Catalaunian Plains

About the Book

“It has the intelectual depth and the dramatic tension of a Robert Graves or Colleen McCullough narrative.” ChatGPT With this historical novel ‘Flavius Aetius: Blood on the Catalunian Plains,” the author finishes his trilogy about Flavius Aetius ‘the Last Roman” begun in 2004. The book is an epic retelling of one of the last great battles of the Western Roman Empire. While taking poetic liberties not found in history, the narrative creates an ambitious and rich tapestry of late Roman history, blending real historical events with fictionalized depth and dialogue. It captures the tumultuous spiritual, political, and military currents of the 5th century with immersive detail. The characters are vividly drawn, and you convincingly portray the complexity of their motivations, ideologies, and interpersonal dynamics. Aetius, Attila, Ildico, Leo I, Theodosius II, Pulcheria, Galla Placidia (a)and Majorian are just some of the characters that stand out in this complex and rousing tale of an Empire on the precipice of oblivion and how the darkness was held at bay at least temorarily. Open its covers and return to the bloody fields of 5th century Rome.

About the Author

Retired Professor Jose Gomez Rivera is retired from Rutgers University in New Jersey and as a history teacher at Science Park High School. This, however, was only the last of many careers for Gomez Rivera, He was also a Diplomat for the United States, serving in Colombia, Venezuela and Chile. Professor Gomez Rivera also served in the New Jersey Commerce Commission in the Office of International Trade, where he led a Governor’s Trade Mission to Asia among other duties. He holds a PhD and a JD from NYU, He is married to Maria Antonia and has three sons, Jose, Lorenz and Alex, my daughters in law Maricarmen, Samantha and Alivia. He has two granddaughters Kora and Taryn that he loves more than life. He has enjoyed the last twenty years working on the trilogy Flavius Aetius: The Last Conqueror which now he bids a bittersweet farewell to. A retired gentleman, Gomez Rivera only hopes that readers will enjoy the book as much as he enjoyed writing it.