Threatened by an unstoppable tide of invaders, the last of the Roman Auxiliaries are setting sail to leave Britain forever. .. .
Years of hardship and fighting follow, and in the end, there is only one thing left in Aquila\'s life--his thirst for revenge .
Aquila, a young Legionnaire, deserted his regiment to stay behind with his family, but his home and all that he loves are destroyed.
The last of the Roman army have set sail and left Britain forever, abandoning it to civil war and the threat of a Saxon invasion.
Rosemary Sutcliff\'s The Lantern Bearers is the winner of the 1959 Carnegie Medal in Literature.
But Aquila, a young legionnaire, chooses to stay behind, in order to join the fight to save his native land.
Threatened by an unstoppable tide of invaders, the last of the Roman Auxiliaries are setting sail to leave Britain forever
