Hannibal. Lansel S.

The book of Serge Lansel is dedicated to Hannibal (247-183 BC), the greatest commander and outstanding personality. The author considers his hero “a figure even more significant than Alexander the Great,” a “worldwide scale”. The book contains all possible, obtained by historians, archaeologists, writers, biographical facts. Its events unfold in the oycumen of the entire civilized world of the third century before the Nativity of Christ. Fate threw Hannibal from North Africa to Spain, through the Pyrenees to Gaul, through the Alps to Italy, through the Mediterranean, along the waves and islands - to the Phenicia, Small Asia, Armenia and the Bosphorus. In many realities, the author describes the course of famous battles and the course of rare moments of the hero’s peaceful life. In addition to Hannibal, military leader, navy and urban planner, on the pages of the book, such heroes of the ancient world as Hamilkar, Gasdrubal, African Scipio, Archimedes, Antiochus, Philip Macedonian and others are breaking through the pages of the book. It is backed up by reliable information that removes the mythologically folklore rally from the image of the Gannibal, and carefully selected by illustrative material.