"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Miles has written an engaging, richly documented study that merges able storytelling with equally able scholarship. "You know a story is great when it grips you even when you know how it turns out. Blood-curdling battles receive their pyrrhic due, and Hannibal's trans-Alps adventure and his humbling demise are covered in masterful detail." Richard Miles has done an outstanding job of bringing the story of Carthage to life, with vivid descriptions of the people, places, and events that shaped its history. "Historian Richard Mills, of Cambridge, makes telling use of the latest discoveries yielded by Carthaginian ruins in a splendid, comprehensive effort to present the city-state as a dynamic entity and minimize it as a victimized, second-tier society so often portrayed in the histories of Roman and Western interpreters. 'Carthage Must Be Destroyed' is a remarkable work of history that takes us on a journey through the rise and fall of one of the most fascinating ancient civilizations. ""Carthage Must Be Destroyed" is a fine, sweeping survey of the rise and fall of an empire and a glimpse into the diversity of the ancient world."
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