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Historical person
1844–1913
Menelik II was emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 to 1913 and a major state-builder in modern Ethiopian history. His forces defeated Italy at Adwa in 1896, preserving Ethiopian independence at a time of European colonial expansion in Africa.
In Wilbur Smith’s King of Kings, Amber Benbrook leaves Penrod Ballantyne and travels to Addis Ababa with Saffron and Ryder Courtney, who hope to develop a mine under the protection of Emperor Menelik II.
Series
This crossover sequence brings the Ballantyne and Courtney families together during the late nineteenth-century contest for power in Africa. Its action moves from the Mahdist siege of Khartoum to Ethiopia’s resistance to Italian invasion and the opening of the Second Boer War.
All books in this series
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
