Rome’s collision with the Carthaginian Empire resulted in the Second Punic War. Covering Rome’s defeats at Lake Trasimene and Cannae to her final victory at Zama, this book examines the…

The battle of Lepanto was the last major battle between fleets of oar-powered war ships. The largest naval battle since Mark Antony’s Actium. It was the one major achievement of…

Formidable and sophisticated, triremes were the deadliest battleships of the ancient world and at the height of their success the Athenians were the dominant exponents of their devastating power. This…

One of the most famous ambushes in military history, Lake Trasimene was the site of the slaughter of an entire Roman army at the hands of Hannibal during the Second…

The Taras were the leading power of the scattered Greek states of southern Italy and built their reputation on the unmatched horse warriors who helped the Taras claim and maintain…

By the outbreak of the First Carthaginian War, Carthage controlled the whole coast of northern Africa. This book explores the heterogeneous mixture of races within the Carthaginian forces, and discusses…

In all the stories told by mankind, the tale of the siege of Troy is perhaps the greatest secular story ever told. This book reveals the literary, historical and archaeological…

Primary among the concerns of Compact administrators, probation and parole agency administrators, and field-level probation and parole managers who were surveyed for this report are the following: rule violations -…