the Carthaginian general Hannibal mustering his downcast troops during their brazen invasion of the Roman Republic at the start of the Second Punic War. On Allen’s left, a cutting wind scythes ...

Pp. xviii, 253. Illus., map, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $37.95 paper. ISBN:0415327431 Cannae is an attempt to apply the methodology developed by John Keegan in his ground-breaking The Face of ...