Prisoners of Hannibal Author:Leigh Merrell So much has been written about the splendor of imperial Rome that it is easy to forget the earliere days of her true glory, when the Roman Republic faced an ordeal as harrowing as any nation has ever endured. This was the Second Punic War, the second war with the great Phoenecian city of Carthage. — This is the story of those embattled years whe... more »n Rome met the supreme test and managed to endure until the fury of Hannibal's invasion was spent. The principal characters in this book are, of course, imaginary, but the consuls and generals, the leaders of Rome and Carthage, are historical personages.« less