Accustomed to the warmth of Africa and New ... his rivals back in Carthage, Hannibal was recalled home to defend the city-state against the depredations of Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio ...

But Rome regrouped, and in 204 B.C., the Roman general Publius Scipio invaded Carthaginian Africa; Carthage then recalled Hannibal and his armies from Italy but ultimately suffered defeat.

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.