- Children's fiction, Great britain, history, to 1066, fiction, Soldiers, fiction, Juvenile fiction
Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes. Historical fiction.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Rosemary Sutcliff, R. Sutcliff
- First published
- March 19, 1998
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Oxford U.P., Farrar, Strauss, Giroux
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780192757432
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