by Adrian Goldsworthy
Well written, well documented. Makes the reader part of the narrative and doesn't get bog down into details that although interesting do not enhance the overall picture of these brutal wars between two rival empires. Goldsworthy does procure a good basis to build on. My reading was focused principal...
Reading The Punic Wars, I was reminded of Rick Atkinson’s An Army at Dawn, which I had read just prior to this book. Both are largely straightforward and well written accounts of epochal wars and both have to do with campaigns in North Africa and Italy (if one were to stretch the comparison to inclu...