Jumbos at a high altitude From: The Spectator | Date: March 20, 1999| Author: | Copyright Spectator Mar 20, 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Jumbos at a high altitude

Nigel Bagnall

HANNIBAL CROSSES THE ALPS

by John Prevas

Spellmount, L19.95, pp. 219

Although ultimately defeated, driven into exile and then to suicide, Hannibal is the dominant figure who emerges from the struggle for supremacy in the Mediterranean between the bludgeoning land power of Rome bent on imperial conquest and the great maritime power of Carthage with its colonies and trading posts. Though Scipio Africanus's victories in Spain and defeat of Hannibal at Zama in North Africa earn him an honourable place in the pantheon of great leaders, his achievements ...

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