The Eagle of the Ninth: Illustr by C. Walter Hodges (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Rosemary Sutcliff Anna Botsford Comstock --Fred Pearce

--Fred Pearce

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This Yesterday's Classics edition is a complete reproduction and updating of the 1905 edition by Ednah Anne Rich

The Eagle of the Ninth: Illustr by C. Walter Hodges (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Rosemary Sutcliff Anna Botsford Comstock --Fred PearceThis indispensable classic, Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth an adventure story that unfolds in Roman Britain, published in 1954 set the standard for all historical fiction for children that came after. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CHILDREN'S CLASSICS. In the second century AD, the Ninth Legion marched into northern Britain to suppress a rebellion of the Caledonian tribes and was never heard from again. The young Roman officer Marcus Aquila sets off