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Thirty-seven elephants set out from Spain in the spring of 218 BC. Almost none of them reached Italy, and the ones that did were dead by the following winter. The man who marched them over the Alps came from North Africa, a place with no mountains, no snow, and no obvious reason to own a winter coat. He was twenty-eight. He had spent nine years planning it.
Everything you know about Hannibal, you know because Rome won and wrote it down. Not one Carthaginian account of the war survives. What survives from that side is a farming manual, quoted secondhand, and a letter that turned out to be a forgery.
This book takes that missing shelf seriously. It follows Hannibal from a sacrificial chamber in Carthage to a dead end in Bithynia, checking every famous story against what the evidence actually supports, and then asks the question the textbooks skip: what would the Mediterranean look like if the other side had done the writing? No Latin. No Roman law. No Cannae in the war colleges. Possibly no Bible with the table of contents we recognize, since that was settled at a council in Carthage.
Along the way: why a general with a broken army kept winning for fifteen years and still lost, why the answer has more to do with a quarrel between two Italian towns than with any battlefield, why the most famous fact about Carthage was invented in 1930, and what any of it has to do with a schoolyard.
A book about the loser who is more famous than most winners, and about the uncomfortable possibility that we are somebody else's Carthage.
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Keywords: Hannibal, Carthage, Punic Wars, ancient Rome, counterfactual history, Mediterranean, military strategy
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Thirty-seven elephants set out from Spain in the spring of 218 BC. Almost none of them reached Italy, and the ones that did were dead by the following winter. The man who marched them over the Alps came from North Africa, a place with no mountains, no snow, and no obvious reason to own a winter coat. He was twenty-eight. He had spent nine years planning it.Everything you know about Hannibal, you know because Rome won and wrote it down. Not one Carthaginian account of the war survives. What survives from that side is a farming manual, quoted secondhand, and a letter that turned out to be a forgery.This book takes that missing shelf seriously. It follows Hannibal from a sacrificial chamber in Carthage to a dead end in Bithynia, checking every famous story against what the evidence actually supports, and then asks the question the textbooks skip: what would the Mediterranean look like if the other side had done the writing? No Latin. No Roman law. No Cannae in the war colleges. Possibly no Bible with the table of contents we recognize, since that was settled at a council in Carthage.Along the way: why a general with a broken army kept winning for fifteen years and still lost, why the answer has more to do with a quarrel between two Italian towns than with any battlefield, why the most famous fact about Carthage was invented in 1930, and what any of it has to do with a schoolyard.A book about the loser who is more famous than most winners, and about the uncomfortable possibility that we are somebody else's Carthage.KEYWORDSKeywords: Hannibal, Carthage, Punic Wars, ancient Rome, counterfactual history, Mediterranean, military strategy This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798170272778
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Thirty-seven elephants set out from Spain in the spring of 218 BC. Almost none of them reached Italy, and the ones that did were dead by the following winter. The man who marched them over the Alps came from North Africa, a place with no mountains, no snow, and no obvious reason to own a winter coat. He was twenty-eight. He had spent nine years planning it.Everything you know about Hannibal, you know because Rome won and wrote it down. Not one Carthaginian account of the war survives. What survives from that side is a farming manual, quoted secondhand, and a letter that turned out to be a forgery.This book takes that missing shelf seriously. It follows Hannibal from a sacrificial chamber in Carthage to a dead end in Bithynia, checking every famous story against what the evidence actually supports, and then asks the question the textbooks skip: what would the Mediterranean look like if the other side had done the writing No Latin. No Roman law. No Cannae in the war colleges. Possibly no Bible with the table of contents we recognize, since that was settled at a council in Carthage.Along the way: why a general with a broken army kept winning for fifteen years and still lost, why the answer has more to do with a quarrel between two Italian towns than with any battlefield, why the most famous fact about Carthage was invented in 1930, and what any of it has to do with a schoolyard.A book about the loser who is more famous than most winners, and about the uncomfortable possibility that we are somebody else's Carthage.KEYWORDSKeywords: Hannibal, Carthage, Punic Wars, ancient Rome, counterfactual history, Mediterranean, military strategy. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798170272778
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Thirty-seven elephants set out from Spain in the spring of 218 BC. Almost none of them reached Italy, and the ones that did were dead by the following winter. The man who marched them over the Alps came from North Africa, a place with no mountains, no snow, and no obvious reason to own a winter coat. He was twenty-eight. He had spent nine years planning it.Everything you know about Hannibal, you know because Rome won and wrote it down. Not one Carthaginian account of the war survives. What survives from that side is a farming manual, quoted secondhand, and a letter that turned out to be a forgery.This book takes that missing shelf seriously. It follows Hannibal from a sacrificial chamber in Carthage to a dead end in Bithynia, checking every famous story against what the evidence actually supports, and then asks the question the textbooks skip: what would the Mediterranean look like if the other side had done the writing? No Latin. No Roman law. No Cannae in the war colleges. Possibly no Bible with the table of contents we recognize, since that was settled at a council in Carthage.Along the way: why a general with a broken army kept winning for fifteen years and still lost, why the answer has more to do with a quarrel between two Italian towns than with any battlefield, why the most famous fact about Carthage was invented in 1930, and what any of it has to do with a schoolyard.A book about the loser who is more famous than most winners, and about the uncomfortable possibility that we are somebody else's Carthage.KEYWORDSKeywords: Hannibal, Carthage, Punic Wars, ancient Rome, counterfactual history, Mediterranean, military strategy This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798170272778
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