Hannibal's Last Battle

Hannibal's Last Battle — Zama and the Fall of Carthage

Brian Todd Carey, Author
Joshua B. Allfree, Tactical Map Illustrator
John Cairns, Regional Map Illustrator

18 October 2007, Pen and Sword Books, Ltd.

This book brings the Punic Wars down to one morning on a North African plain. It weighs Hannibal against Scipio, from the Alps and Cannae to the day they met at Zama.

Zama, 202 BCE

Hannibal's edge had always been his cavalry. At Cannae his horsemen closed the trap behind the Roman army. At Zama the best of them rode for Scipio.

Hannibal brought eighty war elephants, more than he had ever led. Scipio set his maniples one behind another, leaving open lanes through his ranks. Hannibal sent the elephants in first. At the blast of Roman trumpets, some of them wheeled and stampeded back through his own Numidian cavalry.

Masinissa charged into the gap.

Hannibal's Last Battle is available in hardback from Pen & Sword.