![]() ![]() He lives in North Somerset with his wife and two young children. ![]() He studied veterinary medicine and University College, Dublin, but after that he travelled the world extensively, indulging in his passion for ancient history. 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.īen Kane was born in Kenya and raised there and in Ireland. ![]() Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. : Spartacus: Rebellion (9781848092341) by Kane, Ben and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. 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. A lifelong student of military history, Kane has traveled widely, visiting more than sixty countries on seven continents. Historically very little is known about Spartacus. 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. 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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