The Schlachten-Atlas zur antiken Kriegsgeschichte , the Atlas of Battles of Antiquity by Johannes Kromayer and Georg Veith , published in six volumes between 1922 and 1929, remains the magnum opus on the mapping of the battlefields of the ancient world. Kromayer, a philologist and historian, and Veith, an artillery officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, combined a detailed knowledge of the classics with military experience and personal exploration of the possible locations of the most important battles of Antiquity, until Veith he was assassinated in 1925 by two Turkish bandits while he was mapping the Zela countryside, where centuries before Caesar pronounced his veni, vidi, vici.
In this case we have gathered the maps corresponding to the Second Punic War, the great confrontation between Rome and Carthage that decided the fate of the Mediterranean, and we have reproduced them in six DIN A2 size sheets on high quality paper Corolla Book Premium White 100 grams from the Fedrigoni house. "A good map is already half a battle!", went a saying of the Prussian Army, and here are mapped the siege of Sagunto, the crossing of the Alps, the cold waters of the Trebia, the trap of Trasimeno, the defeat of Hannibal in Zama or Cannas, perhaps the most brilliant –and painful– lesson in tactics ever taught.
A crucial moment in ancient history seen through the eyes of early 20th century historiography and military cartography, in these six precious plates with which the editors of Desperta Ferro We want to thank you for your loyalty and support for this project, which is both ours and yours.
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