The Lost Eagles: A Novel

392 pp. Author's second novel. Graves also wrote for Life Magazine for about 30 years. ...a stirring, carefully documented, and richly embroidered novel of dedication, heroism, romance, and sacrifice in the wandering days of the Augustan Age of Rome. Severus Varus, a young Roman of patrician background, has sworn an impassioned oath to Caesar Augustus to recover the eagle standards of three crack Legions commanded by his cousin Quintilius Varus which have been annihilated by the German tribes on the Rhine in one of the greatest military disasters ever suffered by the Empire.--jacket