ABOUT THE BOOK
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`Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.),
who reigned as king of Macedonia for only thirteen years, set a flame of
conquest that introduced the dynamism of Hellenism to the Mediterranean, Middle
Eastern, and South Asian worlds and established a standard of leadership and
military conquest that was the envy of the most successful of Roman emperors,
medieval knights, and steppe barbarians. Julius Caesar wept that he could not
surpass Alexander, while Napoleon could only dream of such invincibility.
Alexander had the great fortune to be
born the able son of Philip II, one of the most talented men of war and
politics produced by the Hellenic world, who created for Alexander the
foundations of the Macedonian state and army, the tools of his future
greatness. Alexander`s invincibility was the product of profound genius,
physical perfection, boundless energy, imagination, daring, intellect, and
vision. He was a master tactician, strategist, logistician, diplomat, and
statesman who had the ability to win the affection and obedience of others.
Even his enemies were quick to fall victim to his valor and charm. His personal
attributes and accomplishments were so far removed from those of ordinary men
that he achieved almost godlike status within his lifetime. Above all, he was
the penultimate man of war, one of history`s greatest soldiers and generals. ``
ABOUT Author
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A former U.S. Army
officer, Peter G. Tsouras is a
senior military intelligence analyst, a military historian, and the author or
editor of two dozen works of military history and alternate history. The latter
include Gettysburg: An Alternate History and Dixie
Victorious: An Alternate History of the Civil War. Many of his books have
been selected by the History Book Club and the Military Book Club and have been
translated into numerous languages. A regular guest on the History Channel and
similar venues in Britain and Canada, Mr. Tsouras lives in Alexandria,
Virginia.