Description From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome\'s most devastating defeat August 2, 216 BC was one of history\'s bloodiest single days of fighting.
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On a narrow plain near the Southern Italian town of Cannae, despite outnumbering their opponents almost two to one, a massive Roman army was crushed by the heterogeneous forces of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who had spectacularly crossed the Alps into Italy two years earlier.
Description From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome\'s most devastating defeat August 2, 216 BC was one of history\'s bloodiest single days of fighting