DHS Presents: Hannibal - The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy

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Per group vote, this month we march with Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy by Richard A. Gabriel.
He crossed the Alps with war elephants. He annihilated Roman legions at Trebia, at Lake Trasimene, at Cannae. For seventeen years, Hannibal Barca held the Roman Republic in absolute terror, wandering the Italian peninsula as an undefeated conqueror while Rome trembled behind its walls. Yet the city never fell.
Gabriel's military biography dissects how the Carthaginian general forged a ragtag army of Carthaginians, Iberians, and Gauls into antiquity's most lethal fighting force. The Romans made sure no Carthaginian records survived, so Gabriel draws exclusively on the accounts of Hannibal's enemies to reconstruct his genius. Tactics. Logistics. And the fatal strategic miscalculations of a man who won every battle and still lost everything.

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Book Information
Title: Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy Author: Richard A. Gabriel First Published: 2011 ISBN: 978-1597976862 (Please use this edition if possible for consistency during discussion) Purchase the book: Amazon Link
If possible, please bring $5 cash as an extra tip for our servers.

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Agenda
Introductions and Cheers: Meet fellow Drunken Scribes and raise a glass with a hearty Bessḥa!
Book Discussion: Hannibal's campaigns. His tactical genius. His ultimate failure against an enemy that simply refused to die.
Drinks and Socializing.

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Bessḥa!