Book description
A battle is like lust. The frenzy passes. Consequence remains. Hannibal
is an epic vision of one of history's greatest adventurers, the almost
mythical man who most famously led his soldiers on elephants over the
Alps. In Ross Leckie's unforgettable re-creation of the Punic wars, it
is Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, who narrates the story, and who
is carried by his all-consuming ambition through profoundly bloody
battles against the great Roman armies of early empire. In this
breathtaking chronicle of love and hate, heroism and cruelty, one of
humanity's greatest adventurers is brought to life, who learns through
suffering that man is but a shadow of a dream.
