The Silver Branch (Sutcliff novel)

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The Silver Branch
Author Rosemary Sutcliff
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Children's, Historical novel
Publisher Pavilion Books
Publication date 1957
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 223 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-374-46648-3
This article is about the book by Rosemary Sutcliff. For other books and uses of the term, see The Silver Branch.

The Silver Branch is a historical adventure novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1957, with illustrations by Charles Keeping. Set in Britain in the last decade of the third century AD, it is the story of two cousins in the Roman legions who find themselves in the intrigue and battle surrounding the struggles between Carausius, a self-proclaimed emperor in Britain, Allectus, Carausius' treasurer, and Constantius, emperor in Rome.

The silver branch of the title is an article in the possession of a friend of the characters.

The Silver Branch follows The Eagle of the Ninth and precedes The Lantern Bearers and Sword at Sunset.

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