The Eagle standard was lost when the Ninth Legion marched into the mists of Northern Britain. Marcus Flavius Aquila, whose father had died with the legion, sets out to restore the Eagle to Rome.
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Rosemary Sutcliff was born in 1920 in West Clanden, Surrey. With over 40 books to her credit, Rosemary Sutcliff is now universally considered one of the finest writers of historical novels for children. Her first novel, The Queen Elizabeth Story was published in 1950. In 1972 her book Tristan and Iseult was runner-up for the Carnegie Medal. In 1974 she was h
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