The shining company
By: Rosemary Sutcliff.
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Cattraeth, Battle of, Catterick, England, ca. 600 -- Juvenile fiction.; Cattraeth, Battle of, Catterick, England, ca. 600 -- Fiction.; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Juvenile fiction.; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons.