Spartacus, on the brink of glory, must make a crucial decision - to go forward over the Alps to freedom, or back to face the might of Rome and try to break its power forever. Crassus, the richest man in Rome, has raised an army to rival Spartacus, and there are murmurings of rebellion in Spartacus’ own army. But storm clouds are growing on the horizon.
Now invincible, he marches towards the Alps and freedom. After suffering mortal wounds at the hands of Crassus's soldiers, Spartacus sees Sura standing on their homeland of Thrace and looking at him. The mighty slave army, led by Spartacus, has crushed all before it, scattering the legions of Rome. Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. Crassus, the richest man in Rome, has raised an army to rival Spartacus, and there are murmurings of rebellion in Spartacus' own army. In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. Now invincible, he marches towards the Alps and freedom. The odyssey has begun which will see Spartacus become one of the greatest legends of history, the hero of revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara, immortalised on screen, and now brought to life in Ben Kane's great bestseller - a novel which takes the story to its halfway point and is continued in Spartacus: Rebellion.Description for Spartacus: Rebellion Paperback. BEN KANE is the bestselling author of The Forgotten Legion trilogy as well as Spartacus: The Gladiator, a top-three bestseller on the London Sunday Times. Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. Clash of Empires Series Order of The Pompeii Richard the Lionheart Spartacus Series The Eagles of Rome series The Forgotten Legion Chronicles The Hannibal. Spartacus Series in Order (2 Books) Book Descriptions for series: Spartacus Spartacus: The Gladiator Jun-2012 Long the stuff of legends, Spartacus is known to most modern readers through the classic Kubrick film version of Howard Fast’s novel. In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. Spartacus Spartacus and his ragtag army take on the mighty Roman army in Ben Kanes brilliant recreation of one of the best-known epics of the modern era. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees. Historically very little is known about Spartacus. The first chapter from the first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave who took on and nearly defeated the might of Rome, during the years 73-71 BC.
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