One book leads to another

At the conclusion of The End of Empire: Atilla The Hun and The Fall of Rome, author Christopher Kelly says: "At the end of a history of Atilla and the Huns, we should be gently encourged to think about more than the decline and fall of the Roman Empire."

A snarky dig at Gibbon, perhaps. Kelly's own work fails to tell as much about Atilla as his title suggests. He spends many more words on Romans than he does on Atilla. Maybe that's because we still don't know much about the Hun.

I bought Decline and Fall at the same time as Kelly's work on Atilla. So, disregarding Kelly's admonition, I will go into Decline.