Overview
Con magistral precisión histórica y un excelente ritmo narrativo, Santiago Posteguillo presenta la historia de la infancia y juventud de Africanus, uno de los personajes más influyentes de Occidente.
¡MAGISTRAL! ¡IMPRESCINDIBLE! ¡UN AUTÉNTICO BEST-SELLER!
A finales del siglo III a. C., Roma se encontraba al borde de la destrucción total, a punto de ser aniquilada por los ejércitos cartagineses al mando de uno de los mejores estrategas militares de todos los tiempos: Aníbal. Su alianza con Filipo V de Macedonia, que pretendía la aniquilación de Roma como Estado y el reparto del mundo conocido entre las potencias de Cartago y Macedonia, constituía una fuerza imparable que, de haber conseguido sus objetivos, habría determinado para siempre el devenir de Occidente.
Pero el azar y la fortuna intervinieron para que las cosas fueran de otro modo. Pocos años antes del estallido del más cruento conflicto bélico que se hubiera vivido en Roma, nació un niño que estaba destinado a cambiar el curso de la historia: Publio Cornelio Escipión.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Writing with masterful historical accuracy and engaging narrative flow, Santiago Posteguillo chronicles the childhood and young adult years of Africanus, one of the most influential figures in the history of Western Civilization.
A MASTEPIECE! ESSENTIAL READING! A TRUE BEST-SELLER!
In the late third century B.C.E., Carthage threatened Rome with total destruction by forces under the command of one of the shrewdest military strategists of all time: Hannibal. His alliance with Philip V of Macedon, who sought the annihilation of the Roman state and the division of the known world between the kingdoms of Carthage and Macedon, led to a series of onslaughts that, had they succeeded, would have altered the fate of Western Civilization.
But chance and fate intervened to create a different outcome. Shortly before the outbreak of the most serious military threat Rome had ever faced, a child was born who would change the course of history: Publius Cornelius Scipio.
¡MAGISTRAL! ¡IMPRESCINDIBLE! ¡UN AUTÉNTICO BEST-SELLER!
A finales del siglo III a. C., Roma se encontraba al borde de la destrucción total, a punto de ser aniquilada por los ejércitos cartagineses al mando de uno de los mejores estrategas militares de todos los tiempos: Aníbal. Su alianza con Filipo V de Macedonia, que pretendía la aniquilación de Roma como Estado y el reparto del mundo conocido entre las potencias de Cartago y Macedonia, constituía una fuerza imparable que, de haber conseguido sus objetivos, habría determinado para siempre el devenir de Occidente.
Pero el azar y la fortuna intervinieron para que las cosas fueran de otro modo. Pocos años antes del estallido del más cruento conflicto bélico que se hubiera vivido en Roma, nació un niño que estaba destinado a cambiar el curso de la historia: Publio Cornelio Escipión.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Writing with masterful historical accuracy and engaging narrative flow, Santiago Posteguillo chronicles the childhood and young adult years of Africanus, one of the most influential figures in the history of Western Civilization.
A MASTEPIECE! ESSENTIAL READING! A TRUE BEST-SELLER!
In the late third century B.C.E., Carthage threatened Rome with total destruction by forces under the command of one of the shrewdest military strategists of all time: Hannibal. His alliance with Philip V of Macedon, who sought the annihilation of the Roman state and the division of the known world between the kingdoms of Carthage and Macedon, led to a series of onslaughts that, had they succeeded, would have altered the fate of Western Civilization.
But chance and fate intervened to create a different outcome. Shortly before the outbreak of the most serious military threat Rome had ever faced, a child was born who would change the course of history: Publius Cornelius Scipio.
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