The Man History Could Not Defeat

Alexander the Great's Unfinished Dream

von Robert R. Hall

148 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In the spring of 321 BC, a golden funeral carriage rolled out of Babylon - and never reached its destination.Alexander the Great had just conquered the largest empire the world had ever seen. He never lost a battle. He toppled the Persian Empire in eight years, sacrificed at Achilles's tomb, cut through a knot no one else could untie, and reached the edge of India before his own exhausted army finally refused to march further. By every measure that mattered on a battlefield, he was unstoppable.Then he died at thirty-two, and his own generals stole his body before it could even be buried.The Man History Could Not Defeat tells the full story behind the legend: a boy shaped by a fierce mother and a father's military genius, the calculated mercy that made cities surrender rather than fight to the last man, and the devastating fury that made cities like Thebes and Tyre into warnings no one else dared ignore. It follows Alexander from the cavalry charge that broke an unbeatable Spartan-trained unit at eighteen, through the Persian royal family he captured and treated with startling chivalry, into the fire that consumed Persepolis, the friend he killed with his own hands in a drunken rage, and the mass weddings meant to fuse two empires into one.But this is also the story of the one thing Alexander never conquered: the question of what would happen after he was gone. He built no lasting government. He named no clear heir. His dying answer - that his kingdom should go "to the strongest" - was the answer of a man who had never once imagined losing.Within fourteen years, every member of his family was dead, murdered by the very men who had once followed him to the edge of the known world.This is the story of history's most complete conqueror - and his one unfinished war.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176459975
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published