Alexander

by Guy Maclean Rogers

For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legendand an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god; in our day he has been reviled as a mass murderer, a tyrant as brutal as Stalin or Hitler. Who was the man behind the mask of power? Why did Alexander embark on an unprecedented program of global domination? What acc

ISBN: 9781400062614