"The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time.
Careful analyses of terrain, climate, and supply requirements are throughout combined in a masterly fashion to help account for Alexander\'s strategic decision in the light of the options open to him...
The chief merit of this. . . . .
Engels at last uses all the archaeological work done in Asia in the past generation and makes it accessible. . .
Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same again. "The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time