Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion
1892
A young Briton's dangerous journey between two worlds. Beric, taken as a hostage to Rome and raised among the very legions that conquered his homeland, returns to Britain torn between his admiration for Roman civilization and his people's desperate fight for freedom. As the Iron Age collapses under the weight of imperial legions, he must navigate loyalty to his mother, his tribe, and his own conscience. Henty delivers his signature blend of historical vividness and boy's-own adventure:险象环生的战役, desperate last stands against impossible odds, and the question that haunts every child of two cultures. The Iceni tribe's resistance against the Roman juggernaut becomes not merely a political struggle but a profound meditation on identity, belonging, and what we owe to the dead. For readers who devour stories of outsiders forced to choose sides, this 1892 adventure remains bracingly alive.
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“Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.””
— G. A. Henty
“You will do well to bear this in mind, for to those who disobey orders and break the line when engaged with the foe I will show no mercy. My orders will be given to each sergeant of ten men to run a spear through any man who stirs from his post, whether in advance or in retreat, whether to slay or to plunder. The time may come when the safety of the whole army depends upon your standing like a wall between them and the Romans, and the man who advances from his place in the ranks will, as much as the man who retreats, endanger the safety of all.””
— G. A. Henty
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