The Way of Alexander the Great

In the history of great conquerors, there was no one greater than the man known as Alexander the Great. His armies moved throughout the Balkans, Asia Minor, Egypt, South Asia, and Afghanistan and even into India. While they engaged in difficult battles, his armies were never defeated. Unfortunately, Alexander was not an effective administrator, so once his iron hand was gone, what could be called his empire quickly ceased to exist. Furthermore, as he moved on his path of conquest, his style became more ruthless and dictatorial, Alexander started to find enemies everywhere and he had some of his former friends brutally tortured to death. This brief book describes the life of Alexander the Great, his many conquests and his goal to do nothing more than continue on a path of conquest. In many ways, there is a poetic necessity to his dying shortly after he ended his policy of moving on to the next kingdom and defeating their army. Had he not died at that point, he would have been a very unhappy man. There was nothing in his personality that would have allowed him to sit on a throne and govern.