Rome and Carthage: The Punic Wars

R. Bosworth Smith's Rome and Carthage: The Punic Wars is a concise but comprehensive history of the three wars that determined the fate of two empires and the domination of the Mediterranean. The Punic Wars made legends out of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus, destroyed Carthage as a center of influence, and paved the way for Rome to expand and consolidate antiquity's most famous empire.