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    Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon
    Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon
    Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon
    Audiobook6 hours

    Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon

    Written by B. H. Liddell Hart

    Narrated by Derek Perkins

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    From one of the most brilliant military historians of our time, this is the classic biography of Rome's greatest general and the victor over Rome's greatest enemy, Hannibal.

    Scipio Africanus (236-183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander, he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in public memory. As B. H. Liddell Hart writes, "Scipio's battles are richer in stratagems and ruses-many still feasible today-than those of any other commander in history." Any military enthusiast or historian will find this to be an absorbing, gripping portrait.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 18, 2019
    ISBN9781541447899
    Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon
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    B. H. Liddell Hart

    Sir Basil Liddell Hart was a military strategist and writer of great acclaim, and one of the world's outstanding teacher-historians. Born in Paris in 1895, he was educated at Cambridge before serving on the Western Front with the Yorkshire Light Infantry after which he was military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and The Times. He evolved several military tactical developments including the Battle Drill system and was an early advocate of airpower and armoured forces. He lectured on strategy and tactics at staff colleges in numerous countries. His many books include biographies of several great commanders, and The Other Side of the Hill - his interviews with the Second World War's highest-ranking German generals. He was knighted in 1966 and died in 1970.

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    • 5/5
      Terrific book on a somewhat overlooked military and diplomatic genius. Well written and flawlessly narrated.
    • 5/5
      Easy to follow and lots of room for future readings! It is thorough and managable for any history enthusiast from dabbler to expert.
    • 5/5
      Excellent read with many lessons applicable to our own times!
    • 1/5
      I was looking forward to reading this book, with a deep interest in Roman history, as other ratings were so high. I was deeply disappointed as his writing often seemed deeply confused and consequently confusing. Often to understand what seemed conflicting statements, I would read it slowly a second time. It has inspired me to read another book on the subject. I really do not know why others rate it so highly?
    • 5/5
      The subtitle accurately reflects Liddell Hart’s opinion of Scipio Africanus. Liddell Hart was a leading British military historian and strategist between the two world wars of the 20th century. But in 1926 at age 31, he wrote this brilliant concise history of the third century BCE Roman general. Publius Scipio Africanus led the Romans to victory over the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War. He defeated the better known Hannibal in the Battle of Zama in 202 BCE.After a brief introduction and the story of Hannibal’s defeat of Scipio’s father in 211 BCE, Liddell Hart takes the reader through Scipio’s victorious campaign against the Carthaginians in the Iberian Peninsula. Liddell Hart is unstinting in his praise of the Scipio’s willingness and ability to innovate and break free from stale military strategies and tactics. He also lauds Scipio’s generous treatment of the native tribes and even his defeated foes. Scipio returns home to election as consul and appointment as general for Sicily and Africa. Liddell Hart portrays Scipio as beset by conservative and jealous senators more anxious to drag him down than to further Roman interests. Scipio narrowly prevails over his political enemies, but is granted a very small force in Sicily. Scipio overcomes all odds, takes his army to Africa and defeats the legendary and much more experienced Hannibal. He returns to Rome and an increasingly unhappy struggle against his political foes led by Cato the Elder.Liddell Hart’s writing is clear and concise (the Da Capo Press version is just 280 pages). He makes military strategy and tactics accessible to the general reader. From both the context and numerous comments, it is clear that Liddell Hart’s high opinion of Scipio Africanus was against the grain of accepted scholarship at the time. He is especially dismissive of the opinions of the academic historians with no military background. I will leave it to others to argue the relative merits of Liddell Hart’s view of the Roman general, but his book is well worth reading.