Explore the world of some of the toughest, scariest and most fearsome fighters. Facts and stats on training, weapons and fighting styles will tell you everything you want to know about our Greatest Warriors!

 

This book is part of a book series called Greatest Warriors .

. This book is part of a HiLo reading scheme, combining high interest relative to the required reading skill.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

Born in the USA, raised in the UK and now resident in Europe, Alex Stewart has been a full-time writer for almost 25 years, and has written over 150 history titles for both adults and children. A visiting lecturer at the Institut Catholique d'Etudes Superieur (ICES, La Roche sur Yon, France), Alex also teaches Creative and Professional Writing at Canterbury Christ Church University, England. Alex, whose pastimes and interests include drama, music, sport and travel, lives near Nantes and works in a large stone hut at the bottom of his garden.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Extreme entertainment
• 2: Doomed to die
• 3: Samnite - the stabber
• 4: Thracian - the slicer
• 5: Retiarius - the net warrior
• 6: Fighting women
• 7: Horsemen
• 8: Fight school
• 9: Ampitheatres of blood
• 10: Horror hunts
• 11: Gladiators on water
• 12: Great gladiators
• 13: Rise and fall
• 14: Glossary
• 15: Further information
• 16: Index