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Query: excellent history of the punic wars

The best book on the Three Punic Wars that I have read. The author writes concise in-depth overviews of the battles and strategies of Rome and Carthage and relates information from Polybius' accounts of the wars and other historians and brings them together in a informative easy-to-read account of the Punic Wars.