Alexander the Great

von Ioakim Ioakim

92 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

He was dead at thirty-two. The fever took him in Babylon in June 323 BCE, in the middle of planning new campaigns, in the middle of an empire that stretched from Macedonia to the borders of India. He had never lost a battle. He had conquered the Persian Empire, Egypt, Bactria, Sogdiana, and the Punjab. He had founded twenty cities. He had prayed for the harmony of the human race. He had wept for his friend.He was thirty-two.Alexander the Great: The Man Who Conquered the World enters the consciousness of the most famous conqueror in the history of the world - not as biography, not as catalogue of campaigns and victories, but as the interior story, the man inside the legend, the consciousness that carried simultaneously the ambition of the world-conqueror and the grief of the man who had outlived everyone who fully understood him.The book follows the full arc of a life compressed into thirty-two years with a density that no other life in human history has matched. Philip's son and Olympias's son and Aristotle's student - the boy shaped by three of the most remarkable people of the ancient world before he became the most remarkable person of the ancient world himself. The army that Philip built and that Alexander led from Macedonia to India - the phalanx and the Companion cavalry, the hammer and the anvil, the most effective military system of the fourth century BCE. The battles: the Granicus, where two Persian nobles attacked Alexander directly and one of his Companions cut off the sword arm that would have killed him. Issus, where Darius fled for the first time. Tyre, the seven-month siege that built a causeway across the sea to an island that no one had ever taken. Egypt and the oracle at Siwa, where Alexander heard what he wanted to hear about who his father really was. Gaugamela, where Darius fled for the second time and the Persian Empire ended as a political reality.The eastern campaigns - Bactria and Sogdiana and the guerrilla war in the mountains. The Hydaspes River and the last great battle against Porus and his elephants. The Hyphasis River where the army sat in their tents and wept and would not go further. The Gedrosian Desert, which killed more men than any battle. Hephaestion's death at Ecbatana, which broke something in Alexander that the fever in Babylon completed.The interior story - the killing of Cleitus, the execution of Callisthenes, the death of Parmenion. The adoption of Persian dress and the prayer at Opis for the harmony between peoples. The loneliness of the man who has gone so far beyond every human precedent that there is no one left who can fully understand what he is or why.Alexander the Great is the fifth book in I. Ioakim's Warriors series - full-length literary historical fiction that enters the minds of history's greatest warriors and stays there long enough to understand what it cost, and what it meant, to be that particular person in that particular world.

• Reihe: The Warriors Series
• Themen: Belletristik Action- / Abenteuerromane Kriegsromane und Militärabenteuer
• ISBN: 9798237339543
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: IOAKIM IOAKIM