Carthage warriors. The first complete encyclopedia

"Hannibal at the gate!" (Hannibal Ante Portas) - This phrase went down in the history of military art for no vain: the greatest commander of antiquity was the most dangerous enemy of Rome, the warriors of Carthage several times hastily defeated the Roman armies and stood at the gates of the eternal city, threatening its very existence, and the purean wars themselves, the gates of its existence. The lasting one hundred and twenty years lasted, demanded that the Romans of the tremendous tension with all their might. It was this deadly battle that the two most powerful states of antiquity, during which the fate of the eternal city hung more than once in the balance, tempered Roman legions, turning them into the most perfect combat vehicle of the ancient world. It was after the triumph over Carthage that the legionnaires gained the glory of Invictus - "invincible": from now on, the heavy tread of their iron cohorts terrified any enemy, and the predatory Roman eagles opened the wings over the entire oykumen.
This book is the first encyclopedia of the great confrontation of Rome and the Carthaginian power in Russian literature. For the first time, on the basis of a wide range of sources, not only the transition of the Hannibal army with elephants and the battle of Cannes, but also the course of all three purean wars, which, on the scale of the ancient world, can be called world, as well as tactics and weapons of the parties, is analyzed in detail