Reviews for Hannibal, VOL. 2: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the...

The average rating for Hannibal, VOL. 2: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the... based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-27 00:00:00 Lotfij Jell This book is so worth reading. i read it over time. taking 3-4 persons aweek as it has so many names-which a lot of them was new to me- . it made me know about people i never knew about and those guys were REALLY important for our development nowadays. what really made me so happy that there were two arabs in the list "Muhammed PBUH ranked 1st/Umr Ibn Al-khatab ranked 52nd". the bad thing about this book it may get a little boring having a lot of details of scientific things that i dont get and less about the person's own life-which you really want to know about- another thing made me read this book on several months that it was about INFLUENTIAL persons not FAMOUS. so there were a lot of them weren't familiar to me and that makes you not very interesting in knowing who is next :/ does that make sense to you :D . but that is what is reading all about KNOWING NEW STUFF. In general it was a good book. I rated it not in every single information presenting in there but for the effort the author put to write such an encyclopedia may i say. he obviously studied those characters for long time, analysed their achievements and compared them to each other. another thing i'd give a thumb up is that the author explained why he ranked this person in that ranking. in the end of the book he mentioned a couple of famous persons explaining why he hadn't put them in his ranking. Leonardo Da Vinci wasn't on the list #Disappointing. you aren't obligate to this list but it can help you make yours ;). last but not least what really thrilled me he ranked Menes in his list "ranked 96th". he is an EGYPTIAN pharaoh who is also named Narmer. #proud# If you wanna know a little bit about influential people who made our world as we know now, definitely check that book out.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-10-05 00:00:00 Cheryl May I am really surprised to see that one of the hottest discussions about this book is on Hart's religion since he listed Mohammed as the most influential people in the world. As for me, I don't think I would care less about his religion. I think, his reasonings are more important than his original religion. He listed Mohammed first because he had influences on political and economic aspects of his people as well as the Middle Eastern people at that time. Meanwhile Jesus, I suppose as Christian myself, only influenced the political aspect and of course religious life of his people. So even as a Christian, I would agree with Hart, putting Mohammed as the most influential people in the world. My personal opinion is that St. Paul made Jesus more important in this world than His own life story. I am so sorry if my review would angry other Christians, but I honestly think so.