The Long Defeat: A Fictional Biography of Flavius Aetius

Ron Altmann is a naval architect by education, a test engineer by profession, a computer programmer by necessity, a teacher by vocation, and a hermit by disposition. Over the past fifty years he has generated hundreds of proposals, test reports, document manuals, and a few good books. The Long Defeat is his sixth novel. Ron lives at the edge of Cold Spring, a small town in the middle of the world.