The Ghosts of Cannae
Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
$28.46
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2011
Summary
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For millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. No general since has matched Hannibal’s most unexpected, innovative, and brutal military victory. Now Robert L. O’Connell, one of the most admired names in military history, tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time, giving us a stirring account of this apocalyptic battle, its causes and consequences.
O’Connell brilliantly conveys how Rome amass…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812978674 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812978676 |
| Author: | Robert L. O'Connell |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 132mm x 199mm |
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Critics Review
“A masterpiece of style, imagination, and erudition.”—Victor Davis Hanson, author of A War Like No Other
“Outstanding … [a] superb chronicle of events that shaped the fate of Western civilization.”—Booklist
“[O’Connell] is able to put himself and his reader on the ground at Cannae, gagging in the heat of a southern Italian midsummer, assailed by an overload from every one of the five senses.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Dramatic and comprehensive … O’Connell has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage.”—Publishers Weekly
“[O’Connell] writes with clarity about an era shrouded in speculation.”—Providence Journal-Bulletin
Robert L. O'Connell
Robert L. O’Connell has worked as a senior analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center, as a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and most recently as a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression; Sacred Vessels: The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy; Ride of the Second Horseman: The Birth and Death of War; Soul of the Sword: An Illustrated History of Weaponry and Warfare from Prehistory to the Present; and the novel Fast Eddie.
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