Dimensions
156 x 234 x 34mm
The Punic Wars were perhaps the greatest and most significant armed struggle in all of antiquity. Over the course of more than a century the two most powerful nations in the Mediterranean battled for supremacy. For Carthage it was a battle which ended in total destruction of a state, and a culture almost completely extinguished. Rome, on the other hand, rose from a small parochial power to become the mighty military machine that would dominate Europe and North Africa for the next five centuries.
In this book, Adrian Goldsworthy chronicles the wars that shaped the Western World. Each of the wars are described in detail: the long stalemate over Sicily in the First Punic War (264 - 241 BC), the titanic struggle which saw Hannibal beaten back from the very edge of victory in the Second Punic War (218 - 202 BC), and the final carnage of the Third Punic War (149 - 146 BC) which ended in the destruction of Carthage.
