ID3 eTALB K The Ghosts of Cannae - Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman RepublicTPE1 Robert L. O'Connell/Alan SklarTCOP Tantor MediaTCON HistoryTIT2 The Ghosts of Cannae - Part 01TRCK 1COMM ENG
For fans of Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Kagan, and Barry Strauss comes a rich, sweeping account of the most imitated—-and vicious—-battle in history.
Hannibal's battle plan at Cannae became the mother of all great battle strategies—-the first battle of encirclement that has been imitated (often to disastrous effect) endlessly over the past two thousand years. In this brilliant, long-overdue, and beautifully written account, Robert L. O'Connell gives listeners an epic account of one of the most dramatic battles of antiquity. The Ghosts of Cannae is at once a book about a specific battle (the massive defeat of a huge but inexperienced Roman army in southern Italy by Hannibal in 216 BC) but also an interpretation of the larger course of the Second Punic War, as well as an assessment of the historical impact of Rome's storied rivalry with Carthage. What ties the book together is the fate of the survivors, their treatment by the authorities in Rome, and...TLEN 000000120033Pd i 4 %(H<34!&ԭIWϹR2t ~mZ +D-Fݣ&+nծި0-'m @r@`1X\@ 8t\ Vml4]qyQmtenvLcjl<¡aP$h>2#yE^2`mMRdV i 4 A`A]2LAME3.98.4UUUUUUvnK$1bURpTJ=ʲiRfT2 -t9CR.9c1ty9frK- q6YJ[1(ξ\" ܜd7H嫼4aFG|۔\\ZRd i RC 4 s,LAMEUURAXڤw &LO͚~~#}iݹ m.bI!qMĉN=6kvzd3~lfuItpUl8Jv6 i!C`g/HqtRX<̼Խ[Xpi\%J25W+gRd .#PaJ EM 4 ?8]jLAME3.98.4BiҀdȋ=( ڎ0nEPL(},$W}v0f 2#{0 `0/GY[q"ɮ@Twswk$J>>L+@EF7a-7ާC>;RdpCN)^ +O 4 9gU W+m s7yKwaWtapTAd娤.&;;o"#i/5g])L `fvhPMYCLSãH ùq,$u4ɢ%Ĵ>ji|y9moRG΄ᛎtRdGC0R }#c 4 0tgpLAME3.98.4w[[l 9 e)fVX쿴)ltf4oS9cYh.gI!-(yԲmY!b~g,O}}B@_r)ıIB~xc.`cE(H@]Rde+Ga)Z ڈ 4 $)ULAME3.98.4UUUUUUUUUUUUm fYtH@2T#h ywdIȊuyՕDӕ@;T-\_JEݶmRoL)$ϊ=BM}Sk_M<귭SC"̶Ѓ1o}'zRdm5H! ! $H 4 UB0]R;{`ԓmfTIhgȜLHbQ E 8In]ٜph@AQ,瀢5֙W}?AEx/( L(8%vY 6sX)$HkrA!bOi"xuHŪ2μ^NqRdIDhF 19e 4 aJF8JDFw+L$n; Ԯi:}'5(Y5ɀNF`dؑC{Wg+14t*.fyv'`M MuNm~4uI#63i3MBOxԦƅ}.M PzIs-RdV5h |?8 4 >pOV| `C= Dm (@f#ւ^d>>zVS3b] "c-D43 &tYk&NV)`Ў@Eiaɬ%\F-֟/5Y @Hb @ /=D19\V:R¬ɸRdgHCa3` !o 4 #;vT \)D Q+ ĥLssw+H56MvmlZ&m.f˔+tkQ$̣ڙcA H\9[s(Lճ7T`rRf;t3DC+T [i in9NE6 bY`OGHVRd G!1 3tx 4 0ʝ Of\L97Qaw]>7'd) Un&E