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Hannibal : a history of the art of war among the Carthaginians and Romans down to the battle of Pydna, 168 B.C., with a detailed account of the second Punic war / Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
LIBRA - Special DG249 .D63 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dodge, Theodore Ayrault, 1842-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hannibal, 247 B.C.-182 B.C--Military leadership.
- Hannibal.
- Hannibal, 247 B.C.-182 B.C.
- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C.
- Military art and science--History.
- Military art and science.
- History.
- Command of troops.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 682 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Da Capo Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- "Hannibal is often considered the finest general the world has ever known. Setting out from Carthaginian-dominated Spain with a small army of select troops, he fought his way over the Pyrenees and crossed the Alps with elephants and full baggage train. Descending into Italy, he destroyed the main Roman army at Lake Trasimeno, and came close to conquering Rome itself. At Cannae, Hannibal's brilliant calvary tactics enabled him to cut to pieces a reassembled Roman army, and his subsequent defeats over a fifteen-year stay in Italy were due more to lack of sufficient support from home than to any failings of generalship. T.A. Dodge's classic history, first published in 1891, is equally perceptive of Hannibal's military prowess and his visionary character. Dodge followed Hannibal's route from Carthage to Italy, paying particular attention to the famous crossing of the Alps, exploring every pass in order to determine Hannibal's route. In this book, he wrote an entire history of the art of war among these two mighty armies, and included hundreds of invaluable illustrations. HANNIBAL remains unequalled as the most comprehensive and readable study of history's greatest general."--BOOK COVER.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Boston : Houghton-Mifflin, 1891.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dodge, Theodore Ayrault, 1842-1909. Hannibal.
- ISBN:
- 0306806541
- 9780306806544
- OCLC:
- 32590597
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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