Cover of Spartacus
Read Time: ~9.5 hr

Spartacus

by Ben Kane (2013)

About this book

The mighty slave army, led by Spartacus, has carried all before it, scattering the legions of Rome. Three praetors, two consuls and one proconsul have been defeated. Spartacus seems invincible as he marches towards the Alps and freedom. But storm clouds are massing on the horizon. Crixus the Gaul defects, taking all his men with him.

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreSpartacus Lead Character

Readers who enjoyed this also loved

Cover of The Odin Mission (Jack Tanner 1)

The Odin Mission (Jack Tanner 1)

James Holland

April 1940. Nazi Germany has invaded neutral Norway. Fleeing north are three officers of the King's Guard - men who have been entrusted by the Norwegian King to get leading scientist Hening Sandvold out of Oslo to safety. As Sergeant Jack Tanner and his comrades are pushed back from Lillehammer, they are stranded in the mountains, where they stumble across Sandvold and his protectors, and then a French patrol of alpine troops. Sandvold holds the key to a secret that could change the outcome of the entire war - but the odds are stacked against this ragtag group of soldiers and civilians making it to safety.

Cover of Lion of the Balkans

Lion of the Balkans

Vladimir Chernozemsky

There's trouble in the Balkans, the "Powder Keg" of Europe. Prolific Bulgarian-American author Vladimir Chernozemsky takes us back to the bloody Balkan War in his most personal novel yet. The Ottoman Turks occupied and oppressed the Balkans for five centuries until Bulgaria and its neighbors drove them out, only then to fight over the liberated territories. It was a devastating war that still reverberates today.

Cover of Destiny made them brothers

Destiny made them brothers

Andrew J. Fenady

They met on the battlefields of Vicksburg: Ulysses S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, and Johnny Yuma. United by fate in a nation divided by war, they were destined for greatness. Of the three, Johnny Yuma was the most elusive. A Confederate soldier during the war, he was about to play a key role in Grant's victory, Lee's surrender, and Custer's deadly campaigns. His life is the stuff of legend. But the truth has never been told - until now.

Cover of Die Geschwister Oppermann

Die Geschwister Oppermann

Lion Feuchtwanger

**Die Geschwister Oppermann** ist ein Zeitroman von Lion Feuchtwanger aus dem Jahr 1933, der zusammen mit den Romanen Erfolg und Exil zu Feuchtwangers „Wartesaal-Trilogie“ gehört. Die ersten beiden Auflagen des Romans erschienen 1933 und 1935 unter dem Titel Die Geschwister Oppenheim. Ein deutscher Nationalsozialist mit dem Namen Oppermann hatte noch während der Drucklegung durch Drohungen gegen den noch in Deutschland lebenden Bruder Feuchtwangers eine Namensänderung erzwungen. Spätere Auflagen trugen dann den ursprünglich vorgesehenen Titel. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte der jüdischen Geschwister Oppermann, Gustav, Martin, Edgar und Klara, und ihrer Familien in den Jahren 1932 und 1933 vor dem Hintergrund der Machtergreifung der Nazis in Deutschland. Dabei spiegelt sich in der Haltung der Romanfiguren auch die Täuschung Feuchtwangers über die Chancen der Nazis auf eine Machtübernahme in Deutschland wider; Feuchtwanger war selbst lange von einem Scheitern der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung ausgegangen und hatte noch im Dezember 1932 bei einem Interview das politische Ende Hitlers angekündigt (Hitler is over). (Wikipedia)

Spartacus by Ben Kane | Literally Just Books