Armies Of The Italian Wars Of Unification 1848-70 (2) Av Gabriele Esposito

In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was ''a geographical expression'' ¿ not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupied north, and a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy, who ruled the south from Naples....

Gabriele Esposito describes the organization, equipment and tactics of the Carthaginian forces that fought the three Punic wars with Rome, and analyses the campaigns, battles and sieges. Lavishly illustrated with high-quality photographs of replica weapons...

Covers the period from Romes' foundation to the start of the Second Punic War. Covers not just early Roman armies but those of the other major Italian peoples: most notably the Etruscans and Samnites, the Greek colonists of the southern cities and...