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Article: HANNIBAL.(new book regarding Carthagenian general by Habib Boulares)(Brief Article)
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- The Middle East
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- July 1, 2000
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HANNIBAL By Habib Boulares Published in French by Librairie Academique Perrin ISBN 2 262 01628 3 Price FF139
Hannibal epitomises, in western imagination, the war chief and the barbarian, the conquering hero and the invader from the other shores of the Mediterranean. However, that representation held by the ancient Romans and today's Europeans, is far too much of a caricature to do justice to Hannibal.
Habib Boulares, Tunisian politician and writer, tells a different tale, the one of Hannibal the African, diplomat, skilled negotiator, and outstanding strategist, who between 219BC and 202BC, goes to ...