Robert L. O’Connell has worked as a senior analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center, as a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and most recently as a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression; Sacred Vessels: The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy; Ride of the Second Horseman: The Birth and Death of War; Soul of the Sword: An Illustrated History of Weaponry and Warfare from Prehistory to the Present; and the novel Fast Eddie.
“A masterpiece of style, imagination, and erudition.”—Victor Davis
Hanson, author of A War Like No Other
“Outstanding . . . [a] superb chronicle of events that shaped the
fate of Western civilization.”—Booklist
“[O’Connell] is able to put himself and his reader on the ground at
Cannae, gagging in the heat of a southern Italian midsummer,
assailed by an overload from every one of the five senses.”—The New
York Times Book Review
“Dramatic and comprehensive . . . O’Connell has established the new
standard for studies of the second conflict between Rome and
Carthage.”—Publishers Weekly
“[O’Connell] writes with clarity about an era shrouded in
speculation.”—Providence Journal-Bulletin
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