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bookshelves: history, ancient-history, roman-civilisation, winter-20132014, under-1000-ratings, tbr-busting-2014, war, tunisia, published-2010, newtome-author, italy, fraudio Read from October 20, 2013 to January 19, 2014 Blurberoonies: Other battles are perhaps just as famous as Thermopylae, Wa...
Those Barcid boys, what a rowdy bunch of troublemakers they were. Mago, Hasdrubal and, especially our favorite, Hannibal (“he who enjoys Baal’s favor”) Barca, raged around the Mediterranean for many years. Of course, we mainly remember Hannibal for crossing the Alps with his elephants and for the b...
Why do humans make war? Is it genetically pre-determined? What lessons of early warfare can we apply to present day conditions?Robert O'Connell attempts to answer these and many other questions 0' Connell argues that man's creation of weapons is biologically defensible. Most animals developed some f...