Alexander the Great
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Synopsis
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Robin Lane Fox's superb account searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, it brings this colossal figure vividly to life.
Book details
Published
04/11/2004
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN
9780141020761
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UK Kirkus review
Alexander could be said to have pioneered the blitzkrieg form of warfare thousands of years before Hitler came along. While still in his twenties he led vast armies on a sweep of the East, conquering one nation after another and leaving new cities to his glory wherever he went. All that is documented history, but in this updated version of a book first published in 1973, Fox looks behind the ancient accounts and sets out to find what kind of a person Alexander really was. Some of his conclusions are startling. Once seen with a human face, the fixated warrior assumes a new persona that is sometimes scary, sometimes winning. Fox also looks at the people behind Alexander, including his mother whom, he conjectures, may have conspired to have her husband murdered. The book is erudite and finely detailed, peeling back centuries of history to show one of the truly epic figures in a bold new light.(Kirkus UK)
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