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Hannibal: Enemy Of Rome

Hannibal: Enemy Of Rome by Leonard Cottrell

Reviewed: 2013-11-30, 00:00, My Rating: 4.0 out of 5, review contains spoilers: No

Hannibal was wonderful, he so nearly beat the boring Romans. Before I found this book, sometime in the mid-seventies, the only thing I knew was a that he'd taken elephants over the Alps, on the basis of which, I undertook a school project on Hannibal.

Yes, it's probably unbalanced, pro-Hannibal in the extreme, but it was well written, and caught my schoolboy imagination. Who knows what happened to that first copy (library book, perhaps), but I went looking for it forty years later and found it every bit as readable, as engaging now as then.

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