Can I read Hannibal : The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy on EtoBox?

Hannibal : The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy by Richard A. Gabriel is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hannibal : The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy about?

The Romans'destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal's life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every interest in minimizing his success, exaggerating his failures, and disparaging his character. The charges leveled against Hannibal include greed, cruelty and atrocity, sexual indulgence, and even cannibalism. But even these sources were forced to grudgingly admit to Hannibal's military genius, if only to make their eventual victory over him appear greater.Yet there is no doubt that Hannibal was the greatest Carthaginian general of the Second Punic War. When he did not defeat them outright, he fought to a standstill the best generals Rome produced, and he sustained his army in the field for sixteen long years without mutiny or desertion. Hannibal was a first-rate tactician, only a somewhat lesser strategist, and the greatest enemy Rome ever faced. When he at last met defeat at the hands of the Roman general Scipio, it was against an experienced officer who had to strengthen and reconfigure the Roman legion and invent mobile tactics in order to succeed. Even so, Scipio's victory at Zama was

Author

Richard A. Gabriel

Publisher

Potomac Books, Incorporated; Potomac Books Inc.

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781597976862

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.7 / 5 (92 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14