Alexander the Great: His Armies and Campaigns 334-323 BC (Special Editions (Military))

This book combines Men-at-Arms 148: ‘The Army of Alexander the Great’ and Campaign 7: ‘Alexander 334-323BC: Conquest of the Persian Empire’. Upon the assassination of his father King Philip II in the summer of 336BC, Alexander took over the reins of power of a now united Greece. When he led his combined Macedonian and Greek army into Asia a year later he began the greatest career of military conquest in world history. In 11 short years he overcame the might of the Persian Empire and campaigned across the face of the known world. Two eminent scholars of the Classical world (Nick Sekunda and John Warry) describe in detail the make up of Alexander's army, and the course of his epic campaigns.