Alexander the Great lessons from history's undefeated general
The Oracle of Delphi told Alexander the Great that he was invincible. The son of King Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander was educated by Aristotle and commanded a wing of his father's army in the victory over the Thebans and Athenians at the Battle of Chaeronea, when he was still just a teenager...
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2010
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| Series: | The world generals series
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Table of Contents:
- Auspicious beginnings
- Long live the king
- From Granicus to Gordium
- Turning point at issus
- The takedown of Tyre
- From Gaza to Alexandria
- Decision at Gaugamela
- To the victor go the spoils
- Last stand at Persian Gate
- From Persepolis to the Caspian Gates
- The king of Asia
- The crossroads at Syr darya
- On the frontier
- Men fly over sogdian rock
- Into the headwaters of the Indus
- Siege at Aornos
- Triumph at Hydaspes
- Ever eastward
- The end of the road
- A Macedonian against the Malhi
- From great rivers to waterless wilderness
- Back to Persis
- Final days in Babylon
- What was and what might have been
- Epilogue: lasting legacy