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  <title><![CDATA[The Silver Branch]]></title>
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  <default_description>Violence and unrest are sweeping through Roman Britain.  Justin and Flavius find themselves caught up in the middle of it all when they discover a plot to overthrow the Emperor.  In fear for their lives they gather together a tattered band of men and lead them into the thick of battle, to defend the honour of Rome.  But will they be in time to save the Emperor . . .  Rosemary Sutcliff's books about Roman Britain have won much acclaim and the first in the trilogy, The Eagle of the Ninth, has now sold over a million copies worldwide.  The author writes with such passion and with such attention to detail that the Roman age is instantly brought to life and stays with the reader long after the last page has been turned.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1970</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rosemary Sutcliff]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sutcliff offers finely researched history lessons. Here's a chronological listing of her novels: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Rosemary-Sutcliff-in-chronological-order/lm/R2BA08HSP7R8SI/ref=cm_lmt_srch_f_1_rsrsrs0" title="http://www.amazon.com/Rosemary-Sutcliff-in-chronological-order/lm/R2BA08HSP7R8SI/ref=cm_lmt_srch_f_1_rsrsrs0">http://www.amazon.com/Rosemary-Sutcliff-...</a> <br/><br/>THE SILVER BRANCH is set at the turn of the 3rd to 4th centuries during the Roman occupation of Britain, when Allectus the Traitor murders the Brit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60414546">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Up until very recently I was unaware that Eagle of the Ninth, one of my all-time favorite Sutcliff books had a sequel. This is not the first time something like this has happened to me, and it's very demoralizing. Anyway, I made haste and got out The Silver Branch to read immediately. And then it sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36882269">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not quite as good as &quot;The Eagle of the Ninth,&quot; but pretty good.  Down the scale of fantasy towards realism.  Continues the story.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Sutcliff, but not every Sutcliff can be. It's still a remarkable book.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a sequel to The Eagle of the Ninth and is just as exciting and informative.  Can't wait to read the last one!  Rosemary Sutcliff's ability to make interesting a part of history that I didn't think would ever interest me is amazing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think by now I had the girls reading these and they were getting impatient with me to hurry up so they could have this one.  We only had one more--the rest we were going to have to get from the library.  Oh horrors!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like this as much as the first book. It was harder to read, somehow. But I did enjoy it, and the details are amazing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i absolutely hated this book.]]></body>
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