The Eagle. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1954 book, The Eagle of the Ninth
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The Eagle of the Ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff, 1954
movie vs book
Kevin Macdonald, 2011

In the year AD 140, twenty years after the Ninth Legion disappeared in the north of Britain, Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young Roman centurion, arrives in Roman Britain to serve at his first post as a garrison commander. Marcus’s father, who was the Senior Centurion of the ninth, disappeared with the eagle standard of the ill-fated legion, and Marcus hopes to redeem his family’s honour by bravely serving in Britain.