Roman Britain Trilogy The Eagle, Book 1, (Paperback)

from yeremenko

This is fine work of fiction for young people. My son is 9, but a strong reader, and we read it together. Other than Harry Potter, there has not been a book we could read that held my interest as well as his. I was not aware it was written in 1954, that in itself is a complement. This story is st...

from Tangotango

Kurzinhalt: Es geht um den jungen römischen Centurion Marcus, der im 2 Jhdt. in der britannischen Kolonie seinen Dienst antritt, und sich nach seiner ersten Niederlage gegen einheimische Aufständische als neues Ziel setzt, den Legionsadler seines mit der Neunten Legion weiter nördlich verschollen...

from AbigailAdams26

An immensely engaging work of historical fiction, Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth, first published in 1954, sets out to answer two unresolved questions from history: what happened to the lost Ninth Legion, stationed at Eburacum (modern-day York) in the early second century, a legion wh...

from bell7

Thirty years ago the Ninth Hispana, a legion in the Roman army in Britain in the 2nd century AD, went to the north country and disappeared. Now, Marcus Aquila, a Cohort Centurion, requests Britain as his first assignment because his father was among that legion and he would like the opportunity t...

from foggidawn

Young centurion Marcus Flavius Aquila's father disappeared with the doomed Ninth Legion in northern Britain. When Marcus takes a post in Britain, he hopes to hear or discover something of the lost Ninth, but a wound taken in battle cuts his military career short. After he recovers, he embarks on ...