1st Edition
Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War
By Gregory Daly
Copyright 2002
272 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
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Routledge
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On a hot and dusty summer's day in 216 BC, the forces of the Carthaginian general Hannibal faced the Roman army in a dramatic encounter at Cannae. Massively outnumbered, the Carthaginians nevertheless won an astonishing victory - one that left more than 50,000 men dead. Gregory Daly's enthralling study considers the reasons that led the two armies to the field of battle, and why each followed the... Read more
List of maps and figures, Preface, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Glossary, 1 Introduction: Rome and Carthage, 2 The road to Cannae, 3 The Roman army, 4 The Carthaginian army, 5 Command at Cannae, 6 Cannae: ‘The Face of Battle’, 7 Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Gregory Daly
"Cannae, the most detailed analysis of the battle that this writer has seen, will be of immense interest to any student of warfare in Classical Antiquity." –The NYMAS Review
