Arrow Hannibal: Enemy of Rome

Top Buch, ordentlich und alles so wie ich es erwartet habe.

-219 av JC, le monde méditerranéen est sur le point de voir éclater une nouvelle guerre entre deux puissantes républiques: la riche Carthage et l'orgueilleuse Rome. Alors qu'Hannibal Barca peaufine son plan d'invasion de l'Italie, deux familles l'une romaine et l'autre Carthaginoise vont voir leurs destins s'entremêler dans un déchaînement de violence et de passion. 1er volet d'une tétralogie, Hannibal Enemy of Rome plonge le lecteur dans les prémices et les 1ers mois de la seconde guerre punique, Ben Kane restituant une fois de plus avec talent les grands enjeux et l'atmosphère de l'époque. On y découvre une antiquité violente et exaltée, où l'honneur et les grands sentiments côtoient machinations politiques et pires bassesses. Jamais manichéen, l'auteur parvient à rendre attachants les personnages des deux camps qui malgré leurs amitiés respectives n'auront d'autre choix que de devenir ennemis. Épopée sanglante, Hannibal fait la part belle à l'action militaire, surtout dans sa dernière partie, et on ne s'ennuie pas une seconde. Une excellente entrée en matière pour une série qui s'annonce palpitante.

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Ben Kane's Hannibal, Enemy of Rome tells the human side of the Second Punic War. It centers upon two families, one Carthaginian and the other Roman. The Carthaginian family consists of a widower with three sons. The youngest son, Hanno, disobeying his father, goes on a fishing boat with a friend, is caught in a storm, and blown out to sea. He and his friend, Suniaton, are captured by pirates and sold into slavery in Campania. Suniaton is purchased to be a gladiator, while Hanno is purchased by a property owner to be a farm hand. Unfortunately for Hanno, the vilicus, or overseer is a Sicilian who hates Carthaginians and goes out of his way to make Hanno's life unbearable. Fortunately, Hanno is befriended by Aurelia and Quintus, the son and daughter of the property owner, Fabricius. Eventually, Quintus helps Hanno escape, and the two end up fighting on opposite sides when Hannibal invades Italy. Hanno is able to join up with his father Malchus and his brothers Bostar and Sapho who have come over the Alps with Hannibal. Quintus joins his father Fabricius in a cavalry unit under the command of Publius Cornelius Scipio, the father of Scipio Africanus. Hannibal, Enemy of Rome is engaging and follows the actual events of the Second Punic War very closely. The action only goes up to the battle of Trebia, and I understand that there will be sequels. I look forward to reading Ben Kane's future books on the Second Punic War.

Not quite as good as Spartacus or The Forgotten Legion Series but okay! Have order the follow up books anyway!