The Ghosts of Cannae

In 216 BCE, forty-eight thousand men were killed a massive knife fight between the Romans and Carthaginians in a single day. Military historian Robert O'Connell tells us about that gruesome day, and how armies fought then and now.
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| 2011: Adam Gopnik | |
| 2010: Douglas Coupland | 2009: Wade Davis |
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2008: Margaret Atwood | 2005: Stephen Lewis |
