Hannibal / Patrick N. Hunt.

"This authoritative biography brings to life one of the great commanders of the ancient world, Hannibal Barca of Carthage, who crossed the Alps with his war elephants to invade Italy and brought Rome to its knees. In the third century BCE, Carthage was the great mercantile power of the Mediterranean...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunt, Patrick (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Hannibal, > 247 B.C.-182 B.C.
Generals > Tunisia > Carthage (Extinct city) > Biography.
Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. > Campaigns.
Carthage (Extinct city) > Biography.
Generals.
Military campaigns.
Tunisia > Carthage (Extinct city)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
218-201 B.C.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xv, 362 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The vow
  • Young Hannibal
  • Spain
  • Saguntum
  • Over the Pyrenees
  • Crossing the Rhône
  • Gateway to the Alps
  • The second ambush
  • Summit of the Alps
  • Ticinus
  • Trebia
  • The Apennines and the Arno marshes
  • Trasimene
  • Fabius Maximus and escape
  • Cannae
  • The campaign for south Italy
  • The march on Rome
  • War in Spain
  • Scipio captures Cartagena
  • Metaurus
  • Roman triumph, Italy to Spain
  • Zama
  • Exile
  • Hannibal's legacy.