Description: Robert L. O'Connell, one of the most admired names in military history, tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time, giving a stirring account of this apocalyptic battle of the Second Punic War, and its causes and consequences.
Review Quotes:
"A masterpiece of style, imagination, and erudition."--Victor Davis Hanson, author of A War Like No Other
"Outstanding . . . [a] superb chronicle of events that shaped the fate of Western civilization."--Booklist
"[O'Connell] is able to put himself and his reader on the ground at Cannae, gagging in the heat of a southern Italian midsummer, assailed by an overload from every one of the five senses."--The New York Times Book Review
"Dramatic and comprehensive . . . O'Connell has established the new standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and Carthage."--Publishers Weekly
"[O'Connell] writes with clarity about an era shrouded in speculation."--Providence Journal-Bulletin