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Author:Rosemary Sutcliff
Title:Dawn Wind
Publisher:  Oxford University Press
Country:UK
Date:1961
Format:Hardcover
Genre:Fiction, History
Rating:10.0  Rate
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ppint.
15th May 2021
 Rated 10/10
superb historical novel in rosemary sutcliff's extended matter of britain sequence running from the decline of the roman empire in britannia, the attempt by carausius to establish an independently defendable roman britain, through the withdrawal of the legions, the campaigning and success of artorius - ''artos'' - later re-invented as the romantic ''king arthur'' - to halt the saxon colonisation of britain and preserve romano-british britain as both a haven and a beacon of civilisation and hope - and its eventual failure.

''dawn wind'' tells of the final catastrophic battle that saw the permanent sundering of south-west britain - devon and cornwall - from west-and-north britain - eventually diminished to wales - at aquae sulis, bath; and of the survival of one british lad and a dog from that battle, and his wandering, lost and purposeless, and his discovering another lost british refugee, surviving in the ruins, and hearing her story, and telling his; and how they fare together, looking for some reason, some purpose, and together attempt to re-establish their lives - but are taken and enslsaved by saxons; and how they fare separately;
and how, at the end, there is a glimmer of hope...

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