Product Description: One of the most intriguing characters in military history is evaluated with this spectacular volume that explores his command skills, weaponry and tactics and ties it in beautifully with his troubled family history.

Product Description: This title examines the principle battles of Alexander's campaigns in detail. The battles of Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela, Hydaspes, and the siege of Tyre, are investigated as well as Alexander's winning strategies, in particular the combination of armoured infantry phalanx with cavalry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Upon the assassination of his father King Philip II in the summer of 336 BC - while making plans for an invasion of Persia - Alexander took over the reigns of power of a now united Greece. When he led his combined Macedonian and Greek army into Asia a year later he began the greatest career of military conquest in world history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)