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Summary: Best Biography of Alexander the Great.
Comment: This is the best biography on Alexander the Great.
It covers his entire life and a short period thereafter. We find Alexander growing up in Macedonia, being tutored by Aristotle, and his military training in his father's expeditions.
Then we are taken on Alexander's military conquest of the known world. Through, the Middle East, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and to India.
We have a front row seat on all the known battles.
This book is the definitive biography of Alexander the Great.
It is excellent.
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Summary: A Biography of One of the 'Great' Men of History
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This is a big book in volume as well as content being over 500 pages long but Oxford historian Robin Lane Fox has contrived to make it interesting for the reader from beginning to end. Many facts have been written about Alexander over the years, some true, some doubtful and much that is pure speculation. This in turn has given Alexander a mythical quality, bordering on god like proportions.
The author's writing style is both concise and lucid with no pretensions to the fact that he is the master and the reader by his very nature is the pupil. In a nutshell the author writes for everyone not just the scholar. This book is for anyone with an interest in the life and times of Alexander. The author progresses through the life of Alexander putting a little more meat on the bones with every passing phase of Alexander's relatively short life.
This is a book for everyone. For those who have found it difficult, or even impossible in the past to read and I mean read a history book from start to finish, rather than just go cherry picking facts from the numerous pages, then this is a good book to get your teeth into. It can be read almost like a novel, but is far more interesting than any fictional book.
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Summary: Takes you for a long ride...
Comment: I've picked this book up in a Florida mall basicly because the movie just came out featuring Colin Farrell. The film took me 3 hours and the book took me 3 months, but every piece of extra time was worth it.
This book describes the hardships during the journey and is comprehensive in detail. Seeing the movie afterwards made it feel like so much detail was missing, it just wasn't the whole story. And the movie was based largely on this book.
If you like the movie and want to take it a step further, I recommend this book. This is the real story.
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Summary: Exhilarating Stuff!!
Comment: A brilliant book. It reads like an historical novel, but it isn't. Sure, there is some speculation, but based only on the author's impeccable grasp of logic and circumstances. If you want to know about Alexander the Great, but want more than a list of dates and events - there is no better book than this IMHO.
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Summary: More Than Great...
Comment: I worship ATG and feel sooo guilty because I should portend these intense emotions for the saviour, GOD and such but this man....Oliver I do not think u were much present for this direction as your commentary is wonderful but you do not even know how to pronounce your main characters NAMES...JESUS!! I found the red light of his arrow attack in India sooo obtuse and the back n forth history unrequired...BUT MUCH BETTER than the Burton film and then there is the bookend of the ring drop is VERY powerful, I just feel faint when I see that...his history is soooo profound and I appreciate your attempts to capture any part of it...Colin was beyone my comprehension as a superb actor with his incredible range, I know no other that could do this role....Angelina was beautiful, evil and loving simultaneously and I could care less about anyone's accent...I would have liked to see more of ATG's accomplishments (i.e. TYRE, etc) but know that this would have been a 16hr film...thank you all for giving me a wonderful excitement that there existed true leaders in this world...
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