Description: Description Of Merchants & HeroesPaul Waters | Pan Books | 2011-04-26 | 320 pages | English | PDF,RTF,EPUB,LIT,LRF,MOBI,FB2,PDBThe thing that struck me as particularly unique about this novel was the development of the character of King Philip V of He is usually mentioned only in passing in many books focusing on this period, presumably because Hannibal is such a charismatic figure he steals the show, so to But King Philip V is presented by Waters as quite a dashing, if a bit roguish, commander of note in his own right who mounted a serious threat to Roman dominance in the True to his ancestors, he was a master of subterfuge and seemed to have a formidable grasp of both siege and naval He was an intelligent and perceptive leader who could have easily turned the tables on the Romans if the confrontation at Cynoscephalae had occurred on ground more suited to phalanx tactics than to maneuvers of small Roman maniple As it is, the battlefield appar...

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