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2) Red dragon
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2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
3) Red dragon
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Hannibal Lecter volume 1
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xiii, 443 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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Will Graham's unusual, fearful ability to project himself into the minds of psychopaths puts him on the trail of Francis Dolorhyde, whose bizarre and bloody murders of two suburban families have been triggered by his viewing of a William Blake watercolor.
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From its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as the greatest sea power in the Mediterranean, the struggle to the death between Carthage and Rome was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. By its end, the last great threat to Roman supremacy was no more, fulfilling Cato the Elder's demand that "Carthage must be destroyed."
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4 videodiscs (approximately 561 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the way, playing a game all his own, while they work to unravel...
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"Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants over the snowy Alps to invade the very heart of Rome's growing empire. But what kind of person would dare to face the most relentless imperial power of the ancient world? How could Hannibal, consistently outnumbered and always deep in enemy territory,...
9) Hannibal
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xv, 362 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"This authoritative biography brings to life one of the great commanders of the ancient world, Hannibal Barca of Carthage, who crossed the Alps with his war elephants to invade Italy and brought Rome to its knees. In the third century BCE, Carthage was the great mercantile power of the Mediterranean world, with colonies from Spain to Sicily. When the increasingly powerful Roman Republic challenged Carthage for primacy in the Mediterranean, Carthage's...
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ix, 243 pages : maps, portrait ; 21 cm
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English
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"August 2, 216 BC was one of history's bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain near the Southern Italian town of Cannae, despite outnumbering their opponents almost two to one, a massive Roman army was crushed by the heterogeneous forces of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who had spectacularly crossed the Alps into Italy two years earlier. The scale of the losses at Cannae -- 50,000 Roman men killed -- was unrivaled until the industrialized...
11) Enemy of Rome
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482 pages : map ; 21 cm
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English
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"As Rome rose to power in the third century BC, there was only one real rival in the Mediterranean -- Carthage. In the First Punic War, the Roman legions defeated and humiliated Carthage. Now Hannibal, a brilliant young Carthaginian general, is out for revenge, setting the stage for the greatest conflict of the ancient world. Caught up in the maelstrom are two young boys, Hanno, the son of a distinguished soldier and confidant of Hannibal, and Quintus,...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Hannibal, one of history's most famous generals, achieved what the Romans thought to be impossible. With a vast army of 30,000 troops, 15,000 horses, and 37 war elephants, he crossed the mighty Alps in only 16 days to launch an attack on Rome from the north. In Hannibal in the Alps, a team of experts conclusively proves for the first time that Hannibal's army did indeed cross the Alps.
Follows a team of archaeologists, explorers, and scientists as...
13) Hannibal
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ix, 245 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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The memoirs of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general. He reflects on war, gives the inside story on his winter crossing of the Alps with the elephants, explains how he defeated his Roman counterpart, Scipio Africanus, and describes his romance with Similce, his Spanish wife. A first novel by a British writer.
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xvii, 310 pages : maps, plans ; 25 cm
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English
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Robert L. O'Connell, one of the most admired names in military history, tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time, giving a stirring account of this apocalyptic battle of the Second Punic War, and its causes and consequences.
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2 videodiscs (376 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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They employed a brutality which is staggering by today's standards. A fresh look at some of the world's most fascinating, iconic, and truly ruthless leaders, how they came to power and stayed in power, how they treated their subjects, friends and family, demonstrated battlefield leadership and achieved transformations at home.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 376 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Shows how leaders from the ancient world fared in some of the greatest conflicts in history, exposing the truths and myths behind the legendary feats of the epic heroes and villains who didn't just wage war, but invented it. Portrays some of the most exciting battles of ancient history, as well as the tales of betrayal, lust, conquest and brutality that often accompanied them. Uses computer graphics and live-action stunts to bring to life the battle...
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