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Tyrant - Valerio Massimo Manfredi Tyrant (War Between Ancient Carthage & Sicily 480 BC )Blurb - Bravery, brutality and adventure. And the rest is history. Sicily 405 AD: the infinite duel between man and superpower begins. Dionysius, Tyrant of Syracuse, will face Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas. Dionysius brutal military conquests transform Syracuse into the most powerful Greek city west of the mainland. Building the largest army of antiquity he marches to Carthage to fight a war to end all wars.Read By: Derek JacobiYear of Recording: 2005Year Book Published: 2005Translation: 2005Genre: Historical FictionPublisher: Macmillan AudiobooksSeries Name: NovelsPosition in Series: 06Abridged: YesTotal Duration: 5.2 hrsTotal book size: 286Mb-----What fun! It wasn't fun for those in the action at the time of course but so much time has elapsed that it has all become an adventure to read about. 20,000 men lost in the flick of an eyelid... twenty thousand bodies *sheeeeit*I was wondering whether this is the time of the mirrors and I'll have to check that out...Later ...Nope - three hundred years must pass before the mirror incident