Casca the Damned

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Summary: Attila meets his match
Review: An interesting account of the Huns invasion of Western Europe in the 5th century, told through the eyes of Casca, fighting for the last time for the Roman Legions. The account of the battle between Attila's Huns and the legions under Aetius is well written. There is a poignant part early on when he returns to a favourite place we read about in an earlier novel, and one can't help but feel for the character. Certainly well worth a read.

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Summary: Well told story.
Review: I liked this book for a couple of reasons. The first, and most obvious is that it is just a plain old well written story.

The second is the feeling of familiarity in some of the things Casca experiences here. Twice in the story he goes back to places that meant something to him in the distant past. This is something I think all of us have felt when walking through the halls of the school you attended as a child or driving by the house you grew up in. Places, by themselves, are nothing without the people that made them special. The way Sadler relates this feeling really stands out in this book.