A history of the last ten years of Hannibal’s campaign in Italy,
after the most famous victories had already been won, and he had won
over large areas of southern Italy. Suffers somewhat from the author’s
pro-Hannibal bias, which sees him discount any reports of Roman
victories while believing every tale of Punic success, but is otherwise
a useful account of an often neglected period in which Hannibal was
still able to win battlefield victories, but was unable to defend his
new allies, slowly being pushed back into the far south before
eventually having to return to Africa
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