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A young Roman army medical officer, sent to Britain during the period of waning Roman rule, befriends a kinsman with whom he shares an adventure of intrigue, exile, and underground activity with the Lost Ninth Legion.
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Treason, Juvenile fiction, Soldiers, History, Fiction, Children's fiction, Great britain, history, to 1066, fiction, Soldiers, fiction, Great britain, history, fiction, Young adult fiction, Children's stories, Army, Adventure and adventurers, Honneur, Romans, nouvelles, Romains, Histoire, Histoire militaire, Armée, Roman adolescent, Romans historiques, Pères et fils, RomansPlaces
Great Britain, Grande-Bretagne, RomeShowing 6 featured editions. View all 21 editions?
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The Silver Branch (Eagle of the Ninth)
September 6, 2001, Oxford University Press
0192751786 9780192751782
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The silver branch
1993, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English
- 1st Sunburst ed.
0374466483 9780374466480
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Edition Notes
"A Sunburst book."
"First published in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, 1957 ; First American edition published by Henry Z. Walck, 1958"--T. p. verso.
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First Sentence
"On a blustery autumn day a galley was nosing up the wide loop of a British river that widened into the harbour of Rutupiae."
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