Hannibal Av Ross Leckie

<p><i>A battle is like lust. The frenzy passes. Consequence remains.</i><br><br><i>Hannibal</i> is an epic vision of one of history''s greatest adventurers, the almost mythical man who most famously led his soldiers on elephants over the Alps. In Ross Leckie''s unforgettable re-creation of the Punic wars, it is Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, who narrates the story, and who is carried by his all-consuming ambition through profoundly bloody battles against the great Roman armies of early empire.<br><br>In this breathtaking chronicle of love and hate, heroism and cruelty, one of humanity''s greatest adventurers is brought to life, who learns through suffering that man is but a shadow of a dream.</p>