Plataforma Historica: Los Lobos de la Frontera (Paperback)

from quondame

If this book had been published in the 1950s there would have been some excuse for just another boy's story of a young man's mistake and redemption through service in the Roman Auxiliaries, but by 1980 Sutcliff should have been a bit caught up with and adventure literature that did include women ...

from DinadansFriend

A disgraced Roman officer is sent to Hadrian's Wall to keep control of a set of irregulars. It's a good story of how young men interact, and perhaps how it may have been up on the Wall, remembered by an aged Alexios Aquila in his old age.

from beelzebubba

This book is part of the Dolphin Ring Series, the same series that starts off with "The Eagle of the Ninth", which the recently released movie, "The Eagle" was based on. I don't know if the movie is any good, as I have yet to see it. But I do know that Ms. Sutcliff's books have been flying off my...

from bell7

Alexios is twenty-three, young to be as highly ranked as he is in the Roman Eagles, but his uncle is the Dux Britanniarum, and he has risen quickly. When his superior, Centurion Critos, is killed in battle young Alexios suddenly finds himself in command, and he makes an ill-fated decision. Now, h...

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This novel is part of the author's famous Eagle of the Ninth series, though written over 20 years after the original trilogy and set in between the second and third novel. A young Roman soldier Alexios Flavius Aquila is disgraced after a failed military engagement on the Danube and as a punishmen...