08-08-2001, 08:10 PM
I have a wish. For a novel long read and gone. It was set in the year 406 AD. Stilicho, desperate for troops, had pulled out the last "traditional" Legion from Britain to bolster the Rhine Frontier, promising to return it to Britain once the Crisis had passed. It held the line, but that year the Rhine froze, the Barbarians crossed, and the last of the British Legions perished.<br>
The story was told to the reader by that same Legion's Legate, huddled around a camp-fire in the wreck of the Britain that he knew and had believed in.<br>
A stark if familiar story. One that has stayed in my memory since childhood.<br>
I would be desperately grateful for the author and title of the book in order that I can try tro acquire a copy again. I believed that I had tried all the familiar authors in my search. <p></p><i></i>
The story was told to the reader by that same Legion's Legate, huddled around a camp-fire in the wreck of the Britain that he knew and had believed in.<br>
A stark if familiar story. One that has stayed in my memory since childhood.<br>
I would be desperately grateful for the author and title of the book in order that I can try tro acquire a copy again. I believed that I had tried all the familiar authors in my search. <p></p><i></i>
