Isbn: 9781764432771 - hannibal: the general who almost destroyed rome (7 risultati)

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Hannibal: The General Who Almost Destroyed Rome. Book.

Condizione: New.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. You know a kid who loves battles.Armies, war elephants, generals, the ancient world. But hand them page after page of plain text and the book goes down.So here is a true story, written like a thriller and illustrated on every page.At nine years old, Hannibal swore an oath to be Rome's enemy for life. He floated war elephants across a river on rafts and marched them over the Alps. At Cannae he led 80,000 Romans into a trap. No one came closer to destroying Rome.The pictures are only half of it. Let me explain.The picture, and the story right under itThis is Hannibal's whole life, from the oath at nine to his exile at sixty-four, in 152 pages of story. Every page carries at least one original illustration, and some carry two or three: 182 in all. Under each picture is the paragraph that tells you exactly what is happening in it. The same faces are drawn from first page to last, from Hannibal at nine to Hannibal at sixty-four.A reader could follow the whole story from the pictures alone. The writing moves fast, in short sentences, so a strong nine-year-old can read it alone.Every word is trueThe story comes from the ancient historians Polybius and Livy. When they disagree, the book tells you. It gives you the hard numbers too: Hannibal crossed the Rhone with 46,000 men and came down out of the Alps with about 26,000.A glossary explains every unfamiliar word, and a sources section at the back shows where the history comes from.What you may be wonderingIs it a picture book? No. The paperback runs 174 pages at 7 by 10 inches, with paragraphs of story under the pictures. Scroll down and you'll see two real pages.Is it too violent? It is honest about what war cost, and never gratuitous.Is it in colour? The cover is. Inside, the illustrations are detailed black-and-white drawings.Why this one, when others cost less? A short picture biography gives you a few pictures in a thin book. This gives you 182 illustrations and a whole life, start to finish.Do you need the other books first? No. This is Book 1 of Graphic Chronicles: Epic Conquerors. Alexander the Great is Book 2 and Genghis Khan is Book 3. Each one stands alone.I'm K.M. Hardie. I spent twenty-five years making complicated things simple to read, and now I do it with true history.For readers 9 to 15 who love battles and ancient history. It makes a good birthday or Christmas present: 152 pages of true story, 182 original illustrations, one whole life.Click Read sample and turn three pages. You'll see what I mean. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Your son can read. He just won't.He'll give a screen four hours and a book four minutes - and somewhere underneath the nightly argument about it, you've started to worry what all that scrolling is costing him.Here's a book he can't scroll past.Hannibal was nine years old when he swore he would destroy Rome. He kept that promise for the rest of his life. To get at Rome he marched fifty thousand men and thirty-seven war elephants over the frozen Alps, boulders crashing off the cliffs and the mountain itself trying to kill them, and came down into Italy and took the Roman army apart. At a place called Cannae he trapped a force twice his size and destroyed it in a single morning. West Point and Sandhurst still pull that battle apart today, trying to work out how one man did it.This is the true story of Hannibal Barca, told at the speed it deserves - and built for a boy who would rather be on a screen.Barely one in seven kids now reads for fun. Military Stories for Boys is built for exactly that boy: the reluctant reader who can read perfectly well and simply won't. Every chapter opens in the middle of the action, and there's an illustration on nearly every page, so he never hits a wall of text. He can open it anywhere and something's already happening. He thinks he's only following the pictures. By the end he's finished a whole history book, and it never once felt like school.In a game, he respawns. Hannibal didn't. Every choice in this book was real, and it stuck - the one thing a screen full of restarting soldiers will never teach a boy.And you can hand it to him without worrying. It's honest about what war cost and never gratuitous: real events, drawn with respect, never blood for its own sake.Inside Book 1: An illustrated chapter book with an original picture on nearly every page, drawn for this book, never generic stock artClear battle maps a boy can actually followShort, fast chapters that drop him straight into the actionTrue history - every name, date, and battle really happenedWritten so a strong nine-year-old can read it alone, and an easy fit by eleven or twelveDon't take my word for it. Open Look Inside and read him the first two pages. Then watch how far he gets on his own.Written by K.M. Hardie, who spent twenty-five years making complicated things simple to read, and now does it with the true stories that built the world. This is a book for reluctant readers - for boys who don't like reading, who can read perfectly well and would just rather be gaming. Hand him Hannibal. The hardest part is getting him to open it. After that the story does the work, and when he closes it he'll want Alexander next.Military Stories for Boys - the Classical Commanders series. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…