Pride of Carthage
“Durham vividly captures the frenzy of ancient warfare. . . . A skillfully structured, gripping novel –New York Times
“Masterly. . . . First-rate historical fiction. Durham has delivered some of the best battle scenes on the page since Michael Shaara’s Civil War fiction.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“Stunning. . . . A brilliant exploration of the tension between private destiny and historical force.” --The Christian Science Monitor
“Fascinating. . . . Nimbly exploits what is known about this distant period. . . . The author has speculated and invented optimally.” —The Washington Post
“An extraordinary achievement: Durham puts flesh on the bones of Carthage in a way that no novelist has done since Flaubert wroteSalammbo.”—Tom Holland, author of Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
“Pride of Carthage is that rare and wonderful thing: an historical novel that’s not only deeply evocative of time and place, character and situation, but is also lyrically writt...
