Hannibal

This narrative history follows Hannibal Barca from his Carthaginian youth and the oath against Rome through the Second Punic War. Bradford traces the march from Spain over the Alps into Italy, the victories at the Trebia, Lake Trasimene, and Cannae, and the long years of campaigning in the peninsula while Rome refused a decisive peace. He treats the politics of Carthage, the rise of Scipio, the invasion of Africa, and the defeat at Zama, then Hannibal's later exile among eastern kings. The book is a military and political biography of one commander, set against the struggle between Rome and Carthage for the western Mediterranean.

Bound in red buckram with copper foil portrait. Red slipcase.