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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 Paperback – February 2, 2018

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sagwan Press (February 2, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 726 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1376462834
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1376462838
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.21 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 1.45 x 9.21 inches
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I hate to give this book a single star because the research and presentation was well done. However the Kindle edition is an OCR effort that no one bothered to edit. (See sample in photo.) Rome frequently appears as Pome or Borne. Hut or bnt are often seen for but. Even Scipio gets seen as Soipio or Seipio. There were a couple I never did figure out.If you want to read this book (and I recommend it) spend the extra money to buy a hard copy.
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MGN
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent read
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2012
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Just finished this excellent book. It's a story of a genius (Hannibal Barca) who undertook an impossible mission (defeating Rome) and in the process created what we know today as military strategy. The writer (a Union officer from the US Civil War) describes Hannibal's life in extensive detail. He is especially focused on Hannibal's 16 year war against Rome. There is a detailed and breathtaking description of Hannibal's march across the Alps leading 100,000 soldiers 10,000 cavalry and 200 elephants. That feat alone would place Hannibal in military history. This was followed by several crushing victories over Roman armies which were not prepared for the Carthaginian general's strategic war, his cunning and his power. Hannibal crushed the Romans at Lake Trasimene, at Geronium and of course at Cannae in a battle still studied at military academies for its brilliant strategy and the surrounding and destruction of a much larger Roman army by a brilliant Carthaginian maneuver. Historians often wonder why Hannibal did not march on Rome right after his famous win at Cannae. The author claims this was good strategic thinking by Hannibal who must have known that he would face an army up to 10 times his if Rome had to fight for her life. He was apparently hoping instead to destabilize the Latin Alliance and then dictate peace terms to Rome. He had some successes in this including getting Capua, the second largest city in the alliance, to turn on Rome and side with Carthage. But it would not be enough. For 15 years Hannibal and his army fought in Italy and the Romans eventually stalled the Carthaginian genius by refusing to meet him head on in a battle. Rome was so awed by Hannibal's military skills that they dared not fight him despite having a massive advantage in troop numbers. They simply followed Hannibal around Italy, skirmished occasionally and prevented him from destroying the alliance and sacking Rome. But they dared not fight Hannibal head on. It proved enough. Carthage was run by a group of corrupt oligarchs (does this sound familiar......) who were more concerned in fighting for Spain and keeping its resources as a trade colony than with supporting the campaign in Italy. For this, Carthage paid a price. Defeated in Spain, Carthage was forced to recall Hannibal to defend the city against the Romans led by Scipio. By this time the Carthaginian army was no match for the Romans having been depleted and exhausted by a 15 year campaign in Italy and the local conscripts were not experienced. The Battle of Zama was Hannibal's only defeat. Even that was based on some luck as the battle had been even until Roman cavalry returned from a pursuit unexpectedly and turned the battle.
Hannibal then spent some years in government and was close to returning Carthage to greater power, but the Romans would not let that be. They hounded Hannibal until cornering him and forcing him to commit suicide at age 64.
The author has a deep respect for his subject, almost a reverence. This helps the book also. The subject is well worthy of this reverence in my opinion. Hannibal was truly one of history's great leaders and this book makes his achievements clear in a great way.
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Ian Snyder
4.0 out of 5 stars Well written and informative, but strongly biased
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2023
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Incredibly informative and interesting book detailing the genius of Hannibal Barca and how he eluded and defeated Roman armies for years in their own backyard. The only problem with the book is that Dodge seems to idolize Hannibal to the point where he’ll spend chunks of time defending Hannibal’s feats or character, or detracting from his Roman opponents, against the word of long-dead ancient historians. It is also frustrating that there are no battlefield illustrations at all like in his other books.
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Hugh
5.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Account With More Meaning Than Intended
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2014
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Theodore Ayrault Dodge joined the Infantry as an enlisted soldier in the New York all Volunteer infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He rose to the rank of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel and lost his leg at the Battle of Gettysburg. He had received his military education in Berlin and the University College London and the University of Heidelberg. If you’re a Heinlein “Glory Road” fan, he’s a Heidelberg man. His military carrier did not end with the loss of his leg. He served at the War Department from 1864 and received a commission in the US Army in 1866 retiring as a Major in 1870. He wrote a twelve volume work called “A History of the Art Of War” that discussed generals from Alexander to Napoleon. He wrote a sympathetic opinion of Robert E. Lee and his journals written when he was part of the Army of the Potomac and Gettysburg have been cited by noted historians of his age and ages past. The second of his twelve volume observation of the Art of War discussed Hannibal and, this is that volume.

Dodge is a slave to minutia and detail. He tends to run through the supply train then go back over the roles of each different unit and major player, regardless of how much the overlapped. It is easy to get caught up in the attention to detail here, and I nearly did. Then, strangely, Hannibal began to take shape as a person, a very remarkable person. A boy wizard general like Alexander before him, once given the go-ahead to harass and invade the Roman Empire crossed the Alps and did not return again until many years later. He fought the Romans and their Allies, the Lombards, Gauls and other Germanic tribesmen with his own, very diverse multi-national force from North Africa.

Despite his obsession with minute details, Dodge manages sort through differing reports from the two leading Roman Historians who wrote about Hannibal settling disputed evidence with a very practical warrior’s sense of what’s likely, and unleashed the Romantic Noble Warrior in his heart. One might argue that he blended a romanticized version of Robert E. Lee into his vision of Hannibal and not be far from the truth. One might say that he made up a lot of facts because there is scarce evidence to support any version of Hannibal’s conquests. Well you could say that, but it’s not exactly true.

And of course, all of those arguments, while even possibly valid, will miss the true value of a book like this.

The beauty of Dodge’s work is that it gives those people who write fiction stories, be they fantasy, Science Fiction or historical fiction, a frame that they can use to help imagine a great hero in an impossible situation defying the odds, not for a month or a year, but for more than a decade. Hannibal was the Resistance fighting the Empire in Star Wars. He was “Black Jack Geary” from Jack Campbell’s wonderful “Lost Fleet Series” hopelessly lost behind enemy lines, with no hope of relief battling his way back to safe space. He’s Adamma from Battlestar Galactica 2005, the television series starring Edward James Olmos leading his rag-tag fugitive fleet, seeking a safe haven from the hoards of Cylons chasing them. He’s “Hile Troy” from Stephen R. Donaldson’s “Wounded land” series battling the forces of the Despiser (and one of the few heroes we could like from that series). In Dodge’s Hannibal I can see Robert E. Lee, faced with a choice between duty and the land that he was born and raised in fighting the overpowering union army as much as Sherman disappearing in South Carolina only to reappear in Vicksburg with Ulysses Grant. I can even see Thorgrim the king leading his riders to rescue Minas Tirith at least for one battle’s worth looking like Hannibal, invincible against all Sauron’s might.

And here, is one hero, cut much like those I’ve loved in books, except this one is real taking on the enormous might of the Roman Empire. The best strategy the Roman’s ever came up with was, “if it’s Hannibal, do not engage, don’t’ fight and we can’t get beat,” at least until Scipio Africanus figured out that, with Hannibal in Italy, then there was nobody guarding Carthage. Her is our charismatic leader who holds the alliance together like Captain Ready in the Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson. Hannibal. Who else is there?

So, one can read this and yawn at the numbers and details of the soldiers. If you don’t like to read about military maneuvers in battles or how Hannibal’s Phalanx would have fared against a properly organized and trained Greek Phalanx, then remember. There is so much more in this book. So much to draw from as inspiration if you’re a writer who dares to write a hero through impossible odds and needs a realistic example of how it all comes together.

And the best tidbit of information, the one thing that I didn’t already know about Hannibal is that he lived as a mercenary general fighting with Judea and other nations in the middle east long after his foray into Italy and died an old man after a long and fruitful life.

It’s worth reading at least once.
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John Ledoux
3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2013
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Well explained and great use of simple maps to help explain the story. It seems the Author spends a lot of time defending Hannibal or making various excuses for him. So a lot of the book seems wasted on the various detailed defenses of Hannibal's record. The book makes me want someone to make a movie of this as it would be something to see a mass elephant charge in a movie!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Where are the maps?
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2021
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This is an exhaustive and scholarly examination of the 2nd Punic war between Carthage and Rome. It goes into considerable detail on all subjects relevant to this conflict. The author was a Union officer in the American civil war and writes in a charming Victorian voice. He clearly loves his subject. I would have given this book five stars but for the glaring and unforgivable lack of maps. Any book on military history needs clear and legible maps for the reader to understand what's going on. The print version has these maps and I am simply amazed that the kindle version omits them. Nevertheless, if you are interested in this conflict, which was the prelude to Roman conquest of the Mediterranean, I recommend this book highly. I also recommend the author's other books on Alexander, Caesar, etc.
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Amazon Kunde
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read
Reviewed in Germany on October 5, 2021
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A must read . Fantastic insight on the Roman Miltary machine.
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Mr Thomas McDonnell
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and researched
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2015
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Dodge has written a well researched and astutely written history of the second Punic war and the history leading up and immediately following it, Hannibal it seems is the authors all time hero and he does him justice in this account, I knew nothing of this period in Roman history before but now feel suitably versed having enjoyed every page on this book , I was reading it every spare minute.
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Michael
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Australia on July 5, 2015
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Old book but still good value
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colin
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2015
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Excellent reference book.
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Jim
3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed learning about Hannibal
Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2020
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Excellent and fair analysis of Hannibal with little to go on. No record of him written by friendlies. However in my opinion too much of the book was devoted to the Romans which distracted from the readability .
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