Gladiator

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As the most powerful men in the country plot against him, is it finally over for the son of Spartacus? Simon Scarrow was born in Africa and lived in a number of countries, including Hong Kong and the Bahamas before settling in Britain. Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. He lands up in the Emperor’s court, where everyone is plotting to succeed the Emperor, sometimes with deadly intentions! He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus.

In this short and very readable book, author Tony Sullivan answers all your questions about Rome and its long history as well as tells you the real life story of the man Russell Crowe incarnated on the big screen: Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the North, general of the Felix legions, loyal servant of the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son, husband of a murdered wife, and . If your into Roman history you should really like this book, it’s not often you get such a good book about an individual soldier.By the conservative standards of early 20th Century literature, the superman was doomed by virtue of being a superman. Ridley Scott's roman historical masterpiece, forget the still good but flawed kingdom of heaven this is the one to watch.

Because when Henry finds himself travelling back to Ancient Rome, he soon realises that sibling rivalry can take a much darker turn. He spends summers and free time trying to find uses for his strength, becoming a professional fighter and strongman at a boardwalk. It will compare the battle and fight scenes in the film with reality from contemporary sources and modern tests and reenactments. According to Ellis Award nominee Andrew Salmon, "The writing is edgy, crisp, and fast-paced, with surprising disregard for the conventions and morals of the 30’s. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

It still freaks me out and totally awes me when reviews for my novels mention her in the same sentence. As a working class man from a little village in Scotland, I’m honestly amazed at how many people enjoy my writing. I was born in Scotland in 1977 and always enjoyed studying history – well, the interesting bits, not so much what they taught us in school. Six authors, all looking at the doom of quite different characters, from gladiators to senators to a pregnant woman and more, you expect the whole thing to be utterly depressing but, somehow, it isn’t.