Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy

Never thought the story of Hannibal would be this interesting! Actually, I am not sure why I bought it, but I was glad I did. The author makes the history of is period alive! Great read if you like history!

I enjoyed this reading, good narrative, many historical related elements. I did not like that there are a lot of 'historic spoilers' and maps could have been more elaborated. Anyway I think a great book as first approach to Hannibal and his war

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Highly recommended, and easy to read. Author does a great job of not being too technical , but writing in such a way as you both love and despise Hannibal, excellent scholarship. If you love Greco-Roman history this is a must read.

John Prevas has written an engaging book on the great general, Hannibal, for the general audience. His path to Italy is chronicled clearly as well as his major battles. Except for some sloppy editing, exemplified by the beginning of chapter four-redundancy-this would be a five star book. But such over writing probably would not be recognized by the audience this book is aimed.

Beautifully written and researched. Gives Hannibal his rightful place as a major figure in the ancient world.

First and foremost, I respect the author traveling in Hannibal's footsteps (several times) in order to better tell his story. More authors should do this!Secondly, this is really a cursory glance at Hannibal as a whole. You'll come out the other side not really respecting Hannibal as the great military mind that he is. I think this is on the author and not Hannibal. Hannibal's exploits are well known and deserve all the credit they receive. However, the author doesn't really convey Hannibal's character and generalship all that well. This is certainly a book for folks just getting into Hannibal or newer folks to ancient history or just history in general.

Great book about an amazing general who had the power to fight on!

Fantastic

The main strengths of this book were its readability and brevity—there isn’t the lengthy needless speculation to fill in missing historical details that can make some biographies of ancient historical figures a chore to read. I do wish there had been more maps, particularly of key battles and campaigns. (There are a few maps at the beginning but these are for large land masses only). I appreciate that the author had visited the sites himself but site descriptions are no substitute for maps.I would also note that despite its brevity it is a bit repetitive in places, but this is, at worst, a minor matter and the book is well worth reading.