First published in 1954, The Eagle Of The Ninth was once to be found in every children's library in the UK. For the last fifteen or twenty years, however, Rosemary Sutcliff' has been somewhat forgotten as the solid, carefully written style of her books has given way to fiction that thrusts itself mo...
The Eagle Of The Ninth 1954: dramatised 1996A BBC radio dramatization of the first of Rosemary Sutcliff's novels about the Roman occupation of Britain. It is the story of a young centurion's quest to find his father, who has disappeared with the entire Ninth Legion. Marcus hopes also to find the fam...
A classic (1950s) historical novel about a young Roman man who, with a slave who becomes his friend, travels beyond Hadrian's Wall into the wilds of Britain, searching for the emblem (and the fate) of his father's lost legion.The book definitely minimizes/romanticizes the realities of slavery, and i...
Classic historical fictionAt the age of eight, I read Eagle of the Ninth, my first encounter with historical fiction. I became hooked. Since then, I have been read Nigel Tranter, John Prebble, Conn Igguden, Simon Scarrow, Ruth Downie, and many others.Forty-four years later, re-reading this classic i...
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