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The Battle of Zama: Scipio, Hannibal, and the End of Carthage

by Jack Whitaker
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798180075598
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 174
  • Original Price: GBP 10.42
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 209 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Military / Ancient

In The Battle of Zama: Scipio, Hannibal, and the End of Carthage, Jack Whitaker tells the gripping true story of the battle that ended the Second Punic War and transformed Rome into the dominant power of the Mediterranean world. In 202 BC, on the plains of North Africa, two of antiquity's greatest commanders finally faced one another in a decisive clash that would determine the fate of empires. Hannibal Barca, the brilliant Carthaginian general who had terrorized Rome for sixteen years after crossing the Alps, returned from Italy to defend his homeland against the rising Roman commander Publius Cornelius Scipio.

Drawing on ancient sources, military accounts, and the geography of the ancient Mediterranean, Whitaker reconstructs the long road to Zama, from the disasters of Trebia and Cannae to Rome's recovery in Spain and Scipio's bold invasion of Africa. He brings to life the armies that assembled beneath the African sun, the thunder of the elephant charge, the deadly maneuvering of Numidian cavalry, and the brutal infantry struggle that ended with the destruction of Hannibal's final army.

More than the story of a single battle, this book reveals how Zama reshaped the ancient world itself. It was the moment when Carthage's power was broken, when Rome emerged as the unchallenged master of the western Mediterranean, and when the foundations of the future Roman Empire were laid upon the battlefields of Africa.

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