Atila - El Azote de Dios

Impresionante novela que narra la vida del temible Atila y cómo el papa San León Magno detuvo a los hunos, a las puertas de Roma. . .

Louis de Wohl (1903 - 1961) es uno de los grandes de la novela histórica del sigo XX. Nacido en Berlin, abandonó voluntariamente la Alemania de Hitler en 1935, a causa de la desintegración moral de su País... Entre sus obras de gran éxito destacan en castellano "El Último Cruzado" (sobre D. Juan de Austria); "La Luz Apacible" (sobre Sto. Tomás de Aquino); o "Corazón Inquieto" (sobre S. Agustin).
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[About the Author]: Louis de Wohl was a German-born Catholic author, and had served as an astrologer notable for his work with MI5 during World War II. Sixteen of his popular pre-war novels were the basis of movies. His later novels are literary hagiographies of notable Roman Catholic saints and of different periods of the Bible. Mr. de Wohl was a Knight Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and his wife (nee Ruth Magdalene Lorch, whom he married in 1953) is a Lady Commander of the same Order. His fifty books include The Living Wood (Lippincott, 1947), Imperial Renegade (id., 1950), The Restless Flame (id., 1951), Throne of the World (id., 1949; published in England as Attila), The Golden Thread (Lippincott, 1952), The Second Conquest (id., 1954), Set All Afire (id., 1953), The Spear (id., 1955), and St. Joan, the Girl Soldier (Farrar, 1957) in the Vision Books series.
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