Название: Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
Автор: James Romm
Издательство: Vintage
ISBN: 0307456609
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 416
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 6,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.
The story of Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and consequential saga of the empire's collapse remains virtually untold. It is a tale of loss that begins with the greatest loss of all, the death of the Macedonian king who had held the empire together.
With his demise, it was as if the sun had disappeared from the solar system, as if planets and moons began to spin crazily in new directions, crashing into one another with unimaginable force.