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Or fathers, or shaving, for that matter; the small patterns of behaviour and relationship that made up family life’ (165). The Eagle of the Ninth, like all Sutcliff’s historical novels, explores the ways in which these ‘little differences’ both do and do not matter as people from the past attempt to understand each other, and we them. Sutcliff’s investigation of cultural and racial identity in Roman Britain is far more sophisticated than that offered by Peach, Eliott or Treece, but considering these writers of the 1950s as a group we can see a number of common features.

By contrast, the Ravens have the familiar discipline of the Roman military, subsuming individuality into the mass: ‘Individually the Combrogi warriors were a match for them but now the Romans had made themselves into a killing machine’ (65). For all their fierceness the Combrogi are horrified when the Romans wipe out a British village – Alavna – in a My Lai-style massacre. This ‘ethnic cleansing’, as Ursula thinks of it (116), puts them beyond redemption. Part of the interest of this book is that Dan and Ursula’s sense of the Roman and British past is filtered through their own experience of studying history at school, although their recall is imperfect and The Eagle Has Landed 41 reflects some of the inconsistencies of approach we have encountered in the present discussion.

The ability of a Roman army to act as a single fighting machine is seen as sinister rather than admirable, and its ‘cultural insensitivities’, like its natural ones, as the effect of wilful indifference. The ability to erect camps and cities on a similar plan in all parts of the empire, for example, anticipates the efficiency of modern mass production, but whereas this may have seemed presciently forward-looking to a society still enamoured of that industrial model, its implications are less attractive in an age of multinational corporations and coca-colonization.

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