And so he deserts the Eagle and returns to his family – but the storm he knew was gathering comes faster than they could imagine. Young Aquila, a commander in the Auxiliary Cavalry, is the son of a cultured and Romanised family – yet when the call comes for the last of the legions to leave Britain, he learns that in the end ‘he belonged to Britain’. Everywhere the rule of law and the fragile peace between the tribes is disintegrating, while the Saxon sea wolves raid deeper each year. In the East, Vortigern the Fox, has invited a Saxon war-band to his shores, granting them land, in return for their help in throwing off the yoke of Rome. And there too, barbarian forces gather on all sides. Rome – beset by barbarian hosts at her very gates – has all but abandoned the far-flung province of Britain. The Folio Society have now added The Lantern Bearers to their wonderful reproductions of Rosemary Sutcliff novels.
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