Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Alexander the Great	N. G. L. Hammond	x, 358 pages : 25 cm	OL1397494W
Historia Alexandri Magni	Quintus Curtius Rufus	The Roman historian's account of the conquests of Alexander the Great is one of the primary sources of our knowledge of the Macedonian conquest and its leader.	OL145025W
Alexander the Great	Michael Burgan	Raised in Athens and educated by some of the greatest tutors in ancient Greece, Alexander III was thrust into a position of kingship after the death of his father. He used cunning strategies and a ma…	OL15036956W
Alexander the Great	Green, Robert	Describes the life, battle campaigns, influence on the ancient world, and mythological status of the champion of the Greeks who marched his armies as far as India.	OL15834407W
The nature of Alexander	Mary Renault	A psychological study of Alexander the Great by the writer who fictionalized his biography in a series of novels.	OL16050621W
Alexander the conqueror	Laura Foreman	No one has made a mark on the world more profoundly than Alexander the Great, the young man who, through war, diplomacy, and arguably Machiavellian means, expanded his empire to include most of the W…	OL16068159W
Alexander the Great	Thomas R. Martin	Everything we know about Alexander comes from ancient sources, which agree unanimously that he was extraordinary and greater than everyday mortals. From his birth into a hypercompetitive world of roy…	OL16627441W
Alexander the Great	Norman F. Cantor,Dee Ranieri	From the Preface... RECENT EVENTS in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan have drawn our attention again to Alexander the Great. Three hundred years before Christ, t…	OL17223329W
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great	Kenneth Royce Moore	Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great offers a considerable range of topics, of interest to students and academics alike, in the long tradition of this subject’s significant impac…	OL17915493W
Alexander the Great (What's Their Story?)	Andrew Langley	Traces the life of the warrior king of Macedonia who conquered and united the known world of his time.	OL1888435W
Who was Alexander the Great?	Robin H. Waterfield	When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him to conquer! This, of course, was…	OL20029284W
Campaigns of Alexander	Arrian	Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of the man and his achievements is the most reliable we have. Arrian's own experience as a military commander gave h…	OL2372270W
Alexander the great	Hans De Beer,Burny Bos	A plucky little mouse in a bear costume finds food for his family and wins the heart of a menacing cat.	OL2905450W
The nature of Alexander	Mary Renault	The book is a biography of King Alexander the Great, (356-323 BCE/BC), ruler of Macedon, Egypt and Persia. Renault wrote several historical novels in which Alexander appears: The Mask of Apollo (1966…	OL3906358W
Alexander the Great	Rob Shone,Anita Ganeri	In graphic art format, presents the life of Alexander the Great, who became king of Macedonia in 336 B.C. and conquered the ancient world's largest empire.	OL442559W
The great Alexander the Great	Joe Lasker	Traces the life of the warrior king of Macedonia who conquered and unified the known world and even led his army into unexplored areas in his quest for new lands to conquer.	OL4462911W
You wouldn't want to be in Alexander the Great's Army!	Jacqueline Morley	It is the 4th century BC and you are a sheep farmer living in the wild hilly part of northern Greece known as Macedonia. Macedonia used to be weak and divided but your previous king, Philip II made i…	OL486272W
Alexander the Great	Samuel Willard Crompton,Samuel Etinde Crompton	Describes the life and accomplishments of Alexander the Great of Macedonia.	OL5734470W