The silver branch /
Rosemary Sutcliff.
- 1st Sunburst ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993.
- 231 p ; 20 cm.
"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.
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.