Zbigniew Tycienski grew up in south-east Poland but after time in Greece and Italy he migrated to the United Kingdom and settled in Edinburgh. Along the way, he read The Eagle of the Ninth and posted this intriguing article about one of Rosemary Sutcliff’s best historical novels.
One may at first conclude that Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) is a book for boys about men and masculinity. Read More »
Blood and Sand was one of Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novels written for adults. Based on real events, it is set in The Ottoman Empire, the ‘Sick Old Man of Europe’. Scot Thomas Keith, a former apprentice gunsmith from Edinburgh, is a young soldier with the 78th Highlanders in the Napoleonic wars. Turkish forces capture him in 1807 in the Nile deltaRead More »
Now amazingly I have discovered another film that Rosemary Sutcliff helped write, in 1984, starring Sean Connery.Read More »
The world-famous Rosemary Sutcliff historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth (being made into a film with Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell by director Kevin Macdonald and producer Duncan Kenworthy) in Japan is 第九軍団のワシ by ローズマリ サトクリフ (著), C.ウォルター ホッジス (イラスト), Rosemary Sutcliff (原著), 猪熊 葉子 (翻訳). Curiously today today the front of the Amazon website in Japan shows two US editions … and not the Japanese one. Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff has always been popular in Japan and I have been exploring http://www.amazon.co.jp . I am hindered by my lack of japanese, and only slightly helped by Google translate. This is a customer review of ともしびをかかげて〈下〉 which I think is The Lantern Bearers.
アクイラは晴れてアンブロシウスの部下となりました。しかしブリトン側は他の部族とは一進一退が続き、気の抜けない状況です。Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 