Hannibal
ISBN:
9780862415440 (0862415446)
Edition language: English
Series: The Carthage Trilogy (#1)
I found this one to be a bit of a downer, not just because Hannibal inevitably loses against the Romans (it would have to be an alternate history for him not to), but it's a bit heavy on the gore. On the other hand, there is a real sense of being there, and then, it made me very glad to be born in ...
I was leaning toward a 2-star review before getting to the second half of the book, which began (however tentatively) to explore Hannibal as a human being but it was too late and too facile to raise the book beyond a 2.8, at most.I'm going to assume that anyone reading this review knows at least the...
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