476 BC. A veil of fog covers the plain between Pavia and Plakentia. Suddenly, a horde of barbarian horsemen emerges from the mist and attacks the camp of the Nova Invicta legion, the legendary stronghold of the Roman world and defender of Caesar Romulus, a thirteen-year-old boy, the last Roman emperor of the West. Everything is lost: Odoacer, the German general of the barbarian armies, orders the extermination of the imperial family, dethrones Romulus and exiles him. Thus, the curtain falls definitively on the civilization of Rome...
With his work "The Last Legion", Valerio Massimo Manfredi gives millions of his readers a sample of his narrative ability and the power of his imagination, which make him unique in the realm of world literature. Faith in ideals, friendship, courage, the passion of love, and the power of life are the elements that make up a world that is heading towards its inevitable decline and illuminate with the light of hope a new civilization that is born.