Farewell Britannia. A Family Saga Of Roman Britain

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 286 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Brilliant young historian Simon Young has invented a multi-generational family, part Roman, part Celtic (invaders intermarrying with natives) to tell the dramatic story of 400 years of Roman rule in Britain. Vivid historical detail is balanced by a real feel for the psychological depth of the individual stories. The narrator is writing this family history in 430 AD, realising the Romans will never return. He chooses 14 of the most interesting, but not always the most admirable, of his ancestors. The big events of Roman Britain are all here: scouting for Caesars expedition in 55 BC; the Roman invasion in 43 AD; Boudiccas revolt and the massacre of 70,000 Romans; the Pict attacks on Hadrians Wall; the great Barbarian Conspiracy of 367; and the sudden cataclysmic departure of the legions in 410. But there are plenty of non-military episodes: spying on the Druids; a centurion dreaming of retirement with a young slave he has bought; an ambitious wife on the northern frontier; a bad poet in Londinium; infanticide in Surrey; a young Christian girl facing martyrdom in a British amphitheatre.

ISBN: 9780297852261