The "Campaign" titles provide concise accounts of the great conflicts of history, assessing each commander's strategy, and recounting the progress of the fighting using 3-D battle maps to illustrate the critical stages. This covers Alexander's 11 year campaign to destroy the Persian Empire.
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.
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. In eleven short ...
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.
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