About Carthage, this eternal enemy of ancient Rome, there is not much information left in history. All the more interesting is the book of Harold Lamb - a unique in its reliability and originality biography of Hannibal, the legendary leader of the Carthaginian army, who lived in the III-II centuries BC. e. About a man whose name led the Roman nobility in awe and fury, about his bright, filled with incredible victories and tragic defeats of life, and this book tells.