Mendicate Bias on 15 January 2012
If you weren't just looking for historical novels I would have plenty of amazing reads I could point you towards. But since you specified the only book I can recommend is Pride of Carthage.
It's a retelling of Hannibals attack on Rome and is greatly done. The author also has another series called Acacia, and while it is fantasy he weaves in historical conflicts and modern geopolitical and philosophical dilemmas beautifully into the story.
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