I would give this book three stars, as it was good and well-written, but also only facts. To give this book a childish touch, there is speaking, and easiness to the speech involved. There are no long words or violence, and I recommend this book for five-to-twelve-year-olds.

It is about a bunch of training gladiators, one of which is Spartacus, in a horrible training palace, barely fed anything, whipped if just one thing goes wrong. Spartacus hates life in the gladiator school, and eventually, with all his agreeing mates, breaks out and tries to fight the Romans with his large war army for capturing them and turning them into disgusted gladiator-slaves.

But can Spartacus and his army fight the Romans and win? They were trained each and every day, unlike the soldiers guarding the gates and the towering city of Rome. But of course, with barely anything to eat and hard, steel-like beds to sleep on, are they quite so strong and live-like as the terrible soldiers ahead of them? ( )