📚 The Punic Wars

Rome against Carthage across three generations: Hannibal’s elephants and the total destruction that ended the argument.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject punic wars in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	History of Hannibal the Carthaginian	Jacob Abbott	1849	37
	Breviarium ab urbe condita	Eutropius	1513	31
	Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of ..	Theodore Ayrault Dodge	1891	19
	Scipio Africanus	B. H. Liddell Hart	1926	18
	Hannibal, soldier, statesman, patriot	Morris, William O'Connor	1897	7
	The First Punic War	John Lazenby	1996	6
	Between Rome and Carthage	Michael P. Fronda	2010	6
	Alps of Hannibal	William John Law	2014	6
	Rome Versus Carthage	Christa Steinby	2014	6
	Rome and Carthage	R. Bosworth Smith	1887	5
	Enemy of Rome	Leonard Cottrell	1960	5
	Hannibal	Ernle Bradford	1985	5
	Hannibal Crosses the Alps	John Prevas	1998	5
	Companion to the Punic Wars	Dexter Hoyos	2010	5
	Life of Hannibal	Arnold, Thomas	1859	4
	Le siècle des Scipions	Pierre Grimal	1953	4
	Hannibal	Leonard Cottrell	1961	4
	Punic Wars	Nigel Bagnall	1999	4
	The dawn of the Roman empire	Titus Livius	2000	4
	Belli Punici carminis quae supersunt	Gnaeus Naevius	1964	3
	The Punic Wars	Brian Caven	1980	3
	Hannibal's war	John Peddie	1997	3
	Livy On The Hannibalic War	D. S. Levene	2010	3
	Rome and Carthage, the Punic wars	Reginald Bosworth Smith	1881	2
	Das zeitalter der punischen kriege	Carl Neumann	1883	2
	Hannibal and the great war between Rome and Carthage	W. W. How	1899	2
	Rome and Carthage	R. Bosworth Smith	1905	2
	Hannibal als Politiker	Edmund Groag	1929	2
	Rome against Carthage	T. A. Dorey	1971	2
	Hannibal's war	J. F. Lazenby	1978	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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