Step into De Bello Gallico, gladius in hand.

In Book Four of De Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar recounts the landing in Britannia in 55 BC: ninety ships, twelve thousand legionaries, a hostile shore, a raging sea. The facts are there, forever carved into History. Yet behind those dry lines, behind the record of an unprecedented military enterprise, unanswered questions remain.

Who were the men Caesar led?

What did they feel, suspended between the sea and a shore swarming with enemies?

Who was the soldier who, raising the Eagle of the Tenth Legion, leapt first into the waves and changed the course of events?

Starting from those few paragraphs handed down in the commentarii, The Eagle of the Tenth Legion gives voice to what History left untold. It is De Bello Gallico seen from within the ranks, among iron armor, grueling marches, fear, courage, and bonds forged only in battle.

Lucius Petrosidius and his comrades are not generals nor celebrated heroes, but men. Soldiers who march, fight, suffer, love, and survive beneath a symbol worth more than life itself: the Eagle. Following it, they face not only the enemy, but the weight of choices and the scars no victory can erase.

This novel is a journey into the legion of the first century BC, an army of discipline, hardship, and humanity, told where sources fall silent and imagination takes over.

Because History does not live only in names carved into books, but in the hearts of the men who lived it.

Italian Edition
Newton Compton – May 2019 – 480 pages
ISBN 978-882-274-756-3