It was one of four made for the eleven year old female elephant to wear when she took part in the British Alpine Hannibal Expedition in 1959. The expedition tried to re-trace the route used to ...

Some 16 years earlier, in 218 B.C., Hannibal had brought his army, including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in Italy, even while Scipio, the younger of the two ...

From here, it is a short jump into attempted escapes, with the elephant in tow, across some mountain passes (a la Hannibal, hence the title) into Switzerland. A pleasant, tame tale [from a screen ...

Hannibal explores the man behind the myth, revealing what drove the 26-year-old to mastermind one of the most audacious military moves in history. With 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants ...