I Marched With Hannibal

by Hans Baumann

Translated by Katherine Potts, Illustrated by Ulrik Schramm

Oxford University Press, 1961, illustrated with line drawings in text, illustrated end-papers, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, price-clipped dust-jacket sows minimal edge and shelf wear, minor creasing (see photographs)

"Suru the elephant found the boy in the smouldering ruins of Saguntum after the Carthaginian army had sacked it, and Suru's driver Carthalo looked after him and taught him all he knew about elephants.  Through Suru, Hannibal's favourite elephant, the boy came to know and admire this astonishing young general who planned to lead the Carthaginian army across the Alps to attack Rome."