The lantern bearers
By: Rosemary Sutcliff
Edition: 1st Sunburst ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780374443023
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Juvenile fiction.; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Fiction.
Description: Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, 1959"--T.p. verso.

"First American edition published by Henry Z. Walck, 1959"--T.p. verso.