One of the most pivotal battles in Western history, the Battle of Cannae, was fought 2,232 years ago to the year. The Battle of Cannae occurred on August 2, 216 BCE in southeast Italy between ...
One of the most pivotal battles in Western history, the Battle of Cannae, was fought 2,232 years ago to the year. The Battle of Cannae occurred on August 2, 216 BCE in southeast Italy between ...
Other battles are perhaps just as famous — Thermopylae, Waterloo, Gettysburg — but the aura of Cannae, where Hannibal obliterated the largest army the Roman Republic had ever put into the field, is ...
Ancient Rome is often thought of as consistently victorious but its defeat at the hands of Carthage in 216 B.C. is one of the most studied and... The 'Ghosts' Of Rome's Loss At The Battle Of Cannae ...
Military historian O’Connell (Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression) has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage. In dramatic and ...
New York: Random House, 2011. Pp. xviii, 310. Illus., maps, personae, gloss., notes, index. $17.00 paper. ISBN: 0812978676 The author of a number of well-received popular military histories, in this ...