Victor Rome Could Not Keep

Rome needed a commander who could survive Hannibal, rebuild defeated armies, win allies across the western Mediterranean, and carry the war into Africa. It found one in Publius Cornelius Scipio.From the wreckage of Cannae to the walls of New Carthage and the field of Zama, Scipio learned how to turn Roman endurance into victory. Yet triumph created a new problem. The republic that had granted him ...