The Generalship of Alexander the Great
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: February 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780306813306
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Warfare & Defence; Ancient Greece - History; Military History - Ancient; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Military; Military - General; Historical - General
First sentence: When, as is conjectured, those tribes of Indo-European stocks to become known to history as the Greeks percolated into the mountain-tangle of the Balkans to settle in its more fertile valleys, they formed pockets of agricultural communities, each cut off from the other.