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A scrupulous, astutely evaluative account of Rome's greatest foe: the Carthaginian general who became master of "well-nigh the whole of Italy" (Livy) but couldn't hold it down. Bradford (Nelson, The Shield & the Sword etc) necessarily draws on Polybius & Livy for much of his story--Hannibal's desire to avenge Carthage for Roman high-handedness at the close of the 1st Punic War, his daring approach thru the Alps, his overwhelming victories at Lake Transimene & Cannae, the terror he struck in the Romans, the awe he inspired in his Gallic allies--who composed most of his forces. But: "His ultimate aim, it would seem, was no more than a return to the status quo before the 1st Punic War." He'd no goal beyond abasing the Romans & regaining lost territory. When Rome, defeated, refused nonetheless to surrender, "he was faced with something quite novel" that he had neither the men nor the equipment to deal with--"a war of attrition against a politically well-balanced