Chapter 1

1 Victor Davis Hanson, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power (New York: Random House, 2001), 3.

2 Tania Gergel, ed., Alexander the Great: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), 8.

3 Gergel, Alexander the Great, 47–48.

4 Hanson, Carnage and Culture, 83.

5 Hanson, Carnage and Culture, 79.

6 Partha Bose, Alexander the Great’s Art of Strategy (New York: Penguin Books, 2003), 37.

7 Geoffrey Parker, ed., Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 29.

8 Hanson, Carnage and Culture, 77.

9 Bose, Alexander the Great’s Art of Strategy, 148–49.

10 Gergel, Alexander the Great, 30.

11 Steve Forbes and John Prevas, ...

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