Aetius, the Last Roman

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Aetius, the Last Roman (Polish: Aecjusz, ostatni Rzymianin) is a 1937 historical novel by Polish writer Teodor Parnicki. Set in 5th-century Rome during the fall of the Western Empire, it follows the general Flavius Aetius as he fights to save the empire from the Visigoths and Huns. The story starts with Aetius as a boy and traces his life into adulthood, but most of the book focuses on his peak years. The novel made Parnicki famous in Poland and earned him a grant from the Polish Academy of Literature, which let him travel to Greece, Constantinople, and Italy. The sequel, The Death of Aetius, was published in 1966. By 2014 it had been translated into Russian, Estonian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, and German.