The eagle of the Ninth /
Rosemary Sutcliff.
- 1st Sunburst ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.
- 291 p ; 20 cm.
"A Sunburst book.". "First American edition published by Henry Z. Walck, 1954"--T.p. verso. "First published in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, 1954"--T.p. verso.
A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command.