"Go towards your destiny, faithful heart, and we towards ours."
This book by H. Warner Munn is a little bit of a dark horse, because I feel like most people will know The Last Legion, but not this one. The Lost Legion tells the story of a (you guessed it) Roman legion which is sent by an insane emperor to find survivors of an ancient battle. The emperor just wants to get rid of it because he senses its commander is dangerous, but said commander has too much pride and honour to turn back once this comes to light, and continues on the trek towards China and the Great Wall on his hopeless quest. And tagging along with them is a woman who, if all goes well, just might become the ancestor of none other than Attila the Hun ...
The mad Roman emperor Caligula sends a crack legion on a hopeless task to recover the standard of a Roman Army that disappeared 100 years earlier ...
(from Goodreads)
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