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The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

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ISBN: 9780553382051
Publisher: Bantam
Date of Publication: 2005-09-27
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: War, Literature, Classics, Philosophy
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I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. So begins Alexander’s extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior’s eye for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics of his greatest battlefield victories. Whether surviving his father’s brutal assassination, presiding over a massacre, or weeping at the death of a beloved comrade-in-arms, Alexander does not shy away from the hard realities of war—and the virtues of the warrior code. As much as he was feared by his enemies, he was loved and revered by his friends, his generals, and the men who followed him into battle. Often outnumbered, never outfought, Alexander conquered every enemy the world stood against him—but the one he never saw coming...
 

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