Alexander the Great
Subtitle: lessons from history's undefeated general
By: by Bill Yenne.
Series: World generals
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230619159
Subjects: Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356-323 B.C; Generals -- Greece -- Biography; Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C; Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Auspicious beginnings; title: Long live the king; title: From Granicus to Gordium; title: Turning point at issus; title: The takedown of Tyre; title: From Gaza to Alexandria; title: Decision at Gaugamela; title: To the victor go the spoils; title: Last stand at Persian Gate; title: From Persepolis to the Caspian Gates; title: The king of Asia; title: The crossroads at Syr darya; title: On the frontier; title: Men fly over sogdian rock; title: Into the headwaters of the Indus; title: Siege at Aornos; title: Triumph at Hydaspes; title: Ever eastward; title: The end of the road; title: A Macedonian against the Malhi; title: From great rivers to waterless wilderness; title: Back to Persis; title: Final days in Babylon; title: What was and what might have been; title: Epilogue: lasting legacy.