Winner of Hislibris Award for the 'Best Historical Book', faithfully translated into English for the first time, this book details the equipment, weapons, armor, horse tack, fortifications, tactics and cultures of the units that served as the backbone of the Carthaginian army.

In ancient times, the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) was home to warriors of great renown. Iberian and Celtiberian warriors, both infantry and cavalry, served as the backbone of the Carthaginian armies that terrorized Italy under Hannibal, and proved even more fierce when defending their homeland against later Roman occupation. The Lusitanian resistance under Viriathus was among the toughest the Romans encountered anywhere. Professor Quesada Sanz details the arms, armour and equipment of the various warriors of the region in fantastic detail, drawing on his intimate knowledge of the latest archaeological and historical research. His clear and informative text is supported throughout by a wealth of photographs, diagrams and exquisite colour artwork by Carlos Fernandez del Castillo. This beautiful book is a rare combination of detailed, comprehensive information and sumptuous visual appeal that will be cherished by anyone with an interest in the warriors and weapons of the ancient world. The Spanish edition won the Hislibris Award for the 'Best Historical Book' for 2010 and is here faithfully translated into English.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part One In Time and Space
  • Chapter 1. A fighting spirit: weapons and warrior values in Ancient Iberia
  • Chapter 2. Regarding origins: history and myths
  • Chapter 3. The weapons of Tartessos and the First Iron Age
  • Chapter 4. The weapons of the Iberians and the Celtiberians: an overview
• Part Two Offensive and Defensive Weapons
  • Chapter 5. The falcata
  • Chapter 6. ‘Fronton’ swords and daggers
  • Chapter 7. ‘Antennae’ swords and daggers
  • Chapter 8. Too complex a dagger
  • Chapter 9. The weapons Rome copied from Iberia
  • Chapter 10. The most important of weapons
  • Chapter 11. The soliferreum: the pilum ‘forged entirely from iron’
  • Chapter 12. The Balearic Slingers, a specialist contingent
  • Chapter 13. Iron and Steel: the metallurgy of the weapons of the Peninsula
  • Chapter 14. The caetra: the round shield of Ancient Iberia
  • Chapter 15. The scutum: the oval or rectangular shield
  • Chapter 16. Taller, stronger: the helmet and the warrior
  • Chapter 17. Protection and ostentation: disc-breastplates and greaves
• Part Three Warriors, Battles and Society
  • Chapter 18. Under a foreign standard: Iberian mercenaries in the Mediterranean
  • Chapter 19. Indibilis and Mandonius, and Iberian combat tactics
  • Chapter 20. Celtiberian armies in battle
  • Chapter 21. Numantia against Rome: an impossible struggle
  • Chapter 22. The Gallaecian warriors
  • Chapter 23. Weapons in their context
  • Chapter 24. The Iberian and Celtiberian conception of war
• Bibliography