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Description edit
A stirring account of the most influential battle in history For millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. It was the battle that countless armies tried to imitate, most notably in World Wars I and II, the battle that obsessed legendary... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Scipio: Add a description of this character.
- Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus: Roman consul
- Hannibal: Carthaginian general
- Masinissa
- Hasdrubal Gisgo
- Livy
- Terentius Varro
- Mago
- Marcellus
- Cannae
- Barca
- Cnaeus
- Hamilcar
- Alexander
- Nero
- Syphax
- Sempronius
- Hanno
- Philip
- Sophonisba
- Fabius
- Laevinus
- Capua
- Maharbal
- Tarr
- Prusias
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- New Carthage
- Italy
- Spain
- Sicily
- North Africa
- Syracuse
- Punic
- River Trebia
- Sardinia
- Canusium
- Apulia
- Greece
- Etruria
- Placentia
- Zama
- Utica
- Ebro
- Flaminius
- Macedonia
- Bruttium
- Lake Trasimene
- Cisalpine Gaul
- Campania
- Salinator
- Germany
- Venusia
- Alps
- Middle East
- Saguntum
- France
Table of Contents edit
List of Maps
Cast of Characters
I: Traces of War
II: Rome
III: Carthage
IV: Hannibal's Way
V: The Fox and the Hedgehog
VI: Cannae
VII: Aftershocks
VIII:The Avengers
IX: Resurrecting the Ghosts
Epilogue: The Shadow of Cannae
Acknowledgements
Notes
Glossary of Latin, Military, and Technical Terms
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert L. O'Connell (Author)
First Edition edit
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Publication Date: 2010
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- Dewey: 937.04
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