Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise And Fall Of An Ancient Civilization, by Richard Miles
Reading this book in many ways is like reading a Greek tragedy. One knows from the title the end of the play, and if one is familiar at all with ancient history, one knows that Carthage is going to be set up to be a tough rival to Rome but an ultimately unsuccessful one. And this book delivers exactly what one would expect from a narrative history written by a competent historian of the ancient world. If this book is not spectacular, it is at least solid and written by someone who has some insight and some degree of interest in wrestling with a subject that will be familiar to those readers who come into this with a great deal of knowledge about the Punic Wars and their outcome already and who are looking for…
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