The Gladiators

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Giovanni Paolo Panini. A British gladiator in Nero's Rome and the siege of Jerusalem that follows - the arena, the legions and the zealots on the wall. Whyte-Melville published it in 1863, long after he had left the army, and it was the most admired of his historical novels. This edition is bo...