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Written by Rosemary Sutcliff - Audio book performed by Johanna Ward - Unabridged Fiction - 1 MP3 COMPACT DISC

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks

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When the last of the Roman Auxiliaries sets sail in their galleys and leaves Britain forever, they abandon the country to internal strife and to the menace of invasion by Saxons. These are dark days indeed for Aquila, a young Roman officer who decides at the last moment that his loyalties lie with Britain rather than the Legions. He returns to the family villa in the downlands, only to have all that he loves destroyed by the invaders. He himself is carried off into thraldom. Yet even when a chance to escape presents itself, his freedom brings him little joy, for he has learned that his sister has married a Saxon, and the knowledge fills him with bitterness.

It takes many years of hardship, of strenuous fighting under the Roman-British leader Ambrosius against the treacherous Vortigern and his Saxon allies, before Aquila finds a measure of contentment: a contentment partly learned from the kind and gentle Brother Ninnias, partly from the loving loyalty of his British wife, Ness, partly from an encounter with his sister’s son who is fighting with the enemy.

This is an exciting chronicle full of stirring incident and bitter conflict. With her customary skill Rosemary Sutcliff brings to vivid life the turbulent period of her story, the time when the last of the Romans in Britain were struggling to carry forward what light they could into the Dark Ages that were to follow.