The Conquests of Alexander the Great

'Provides an engaging and balanced overview of the conquests.' Bookseller Buyers Guide 'The choice of [Heckel], one of the most distinguished historians of the period in question, for this volume on Alexander the Great is an obvious one. [He] succeeds in giving a balanced and demystified picture of Alexander's conquests.' The Classical Review 'A book on Alexander's conquests by Waldemar Heckel, one of today's leading specialists in the field, is ... a welcome development. Heckel has given us a well-written and sensible book, with a good selection of facts and problems having to do with Alexander's reign and the wars he fought. Even without an overwhelming scholarly apparatus, the book can be still read with profit by professional historians and classicists, and its views generally represent a prudent compromise among the most important modern scholarly opinions.' Classical Journal