Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War (Ancient Warfare and Civilization)
By Unknown Author.
Description
To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning point in world history is a vast understatement. This bloody and protracted conflict pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers against one another, leaving one an unrivalled giant and the other a literal pile of ash. To later observers, a collision between these civilizations seemed inevitable and yet to the Romans and Carthaginians at the time hostilities first erupted seemingly out of nowhere, with what were expected to be inconsequential results.Mastering the West offers a thoroughly engrossing narrative of this century of battle in the...
ISBN(s)
0199860106, 9780199860104
