Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War

by Dexter Hoyos

Book Overview

To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning-point in world history is a vast understatement. These vicious battles pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers against one another, leaving one an unrivaled giant and the other a literal pile of ash. To later observers, a collision between these civilizations seemed inevitable and yet, to the Romans and Carthaginians at the time, war erupted seemingly out of nowhere and was expected to be a short...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190663456
• ISBN13: 9780190663452
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"