Full name: Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

Author: Richard Miles Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Culture: Africa Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780670022663 9780143121299 0670022667 0143121294

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased. Drawing on a wealth of new archaeological research, Richard Miles vividly brings to life this lost empire-from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as the greatest seapower in the Mediterranean. And at the heart of the history of Carthage lies the extraordinary figure of Hannibal-the scourge of Rome and one of the greatest military leaders, but a man who also unwittingly led his people to catastrophe. The first full-scale history of Carthage in decades, Carthage Must Be Destroyed reintroduces modern readers to the larger-than-life historical players and the ancient glory of this almost forgotten civilization. Similar books: Ancient Rome by Simon Baker The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon The Ghosts of Cannae by Robert L. O'Connell The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt The Fall of the Roman Empire by Michael Grant Terry Jones' Barbarians by Terry Jones The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Roman Empire by Eric D. Nelson History of Rome by Michael Grant The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James J. O'Donnell The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton The Romans by Mary T. Boatwright Rome by Greg Woolf The Persians by J. M. Cook Dynasty by Tom Holland A History of the Roman People by Allen M. Ward From Babylon to Timbuktu by Rudolph R. Windsor They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima The Conquest of the Sahara by Douglas Porch All the Countries We've Ever Invaded by Stuart Laycock History of Africa by Kevin Shillington