3rd third century
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Ancient
Author_Angus McBride
Author_Mark Healy
Author_Richard Hook
barbarians
battle
Carthage
Carthaginian
Category=JWL
Category=NHC
Category=NHD
cavalry
conflict
double envelopment
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Gaius Terentius Varro
illustrated
infantry
Lucius Aemilius Paullus
maps
Roman Republic
Second Punic War
strategy
tactic
Product details
- ISBN 9781855324701
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 180 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 1994
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A highly illustrated account of what is rightly regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history.
Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in detail at military academies around the world. At Cannae the Romans confronted Hannibal with an army of 80,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry. Hannibal faced them with 40,000 foot and 10,000 horse. The engagement that followed was a masterpiece of battlefield control.
Alongside battle maps, Mark Healy describes the battle in detail, up to the end of the conflict, when the Romans had lost 47,500 infantry and 2,700 cavalry killed and a further 19,300 captured.
Mark Healy was born in 1953. He has a Master's degree in Political Theology from Bristol University. He is by profession a schoolteacher and is head of the Humanities faculty in a large school in Somerset. He has written a number of Osprey titles including Elite 40 New Kingdom Egypt, and Campaign 16 Kursk 1943. He has a great interest in both the ancient and modern periods, is married with one son and lives in Dorset.
