Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory

by Adrian Goldsworthy

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On 2 August 216BC, Hannibal won his greatest victory in the plain north of the small, hilltop town of Cannae in southern Italy. By the end of the day his outnumbered mercenaries had enveloped and massacred the greater part of the largest army Rome had ever fielded, turning this into one of the bloodiest battles ever fought, rivalling even the industrialised slaughter of the twentieth century AD. For the Romans Cannae became the yardstick by which other defeats were measured, never surpassed and only once or twice equalled in the next six centuries. Cannae remains one of the most...Read more
  • ISBN10 0753822598
  • ISBN13 9780753822593
  • Publish Date 16 May 2007
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 7 September 2013
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Language English