Bøger af Dexter Hoyos

First book dedicated to Carthage's conflicts outside the 'Punic Wars' against Rome.

Hannibal's enduring reputation as a man and as a general is due to his enemies' fascination with him. The issue of whether he might indeed have changed history had he postponed conflict with Rome and concentrated first on Carthage's own prosperity and safety is explored in this volume as vigorously as the military questions.

Hannibal has always been the most famous member of the Barcid dynasty, which dominated Carthage and its empire in Africa and Spain in the latter half of the third century BC. Issues of politics and power, and other much debated problems of leadership, diplomacy and war during Carthage's greatest era, are interpreted in this book.