Hannibal

Rating:
Summary: Average
Review: While Dodge's book is informative it is not completely trustworthy. T.A. Dodge was clearly very enamored by Hannibal and thus ran into trouble because he seemed to have a hard time criticizing Hannibal in any way. When he did so it was insincere, nothing more than window dressing. In fact, on a few occasions he directly contradicts himself, whether purposefully or not I do not know, in order to portray Hannibal in a brighter light. Also, as other reviewers have stated, Dodge apparently had rather poor grammer skills which cause his writing quality to decrease some. The only reason I would rate this book as a 3 star instead of 2 is because, while the book has a relatively high amount of flaws for a history, most are either trivial or easily deciphered and do not affect the good amount of information and quality analysis.