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Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
Feb 27, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: kids-1001, children-s-books, italy
Two young men set off on a quest to try to find out what they can about the lost regiment of the Ninth. It’s action. It’s adventure. It’s a story of diversity with a slave who is set free and a man who is handicapped by a bad leg. It’s even a bit of romance.

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Nina ( picturetalk321 )
Aug 04, 2024 rated it liked it
Shelves: author-woman, author-white, z-read-gelesen-2024, a-reviewed, europe-uk, publdate-1950s, genre-childrens, genre-historicalfiction, theme-ancient-world, zchallenge-2024-diversereading-bex
This book, published in the 1950s, took me back to a different era of children's book publishing, and when I was a child I certainly still read a lot of books from this era. A slow pace, considering this is an adventure quest story; conscientious recreation of history; uncritical affirmation of past power structures (the individual slave is worthy and gets liberated; other slaves are content to serve; there is no critique of the institution of slavery as such); focus on male protagonists; a mean ...more
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Karen
Jan 04, 2014 rated it really liked it
Rosemary Sutcliff has a way of making history come alive. I saw the movie first, and maybe that was a good thing for the movie was only somewhat like the book.
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Jim
Oct 17, 2008 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, roman_empire
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Nov 21, 2008 marked it as to-read
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Tanya
Feb 16, 2016 marked it as to-read
Shelves: kids-1-001-books, kids-1001-12-plus
Sarah
Nov 15, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: nrpg
Terri
Sep 06, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: roman-empire-fiction
Theresa Wright
Jul 09, 2019 marked it as to-read
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