@article{349669,
      recid = {349669},
      author = {Dodge, Theodore Ayrault,},
      title = {Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art  of war from the earliest times to the Battle of Ipsus, 301  BC, with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great  Macedonian /},
      publisher = {Da Capo Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxv, 692 p. :},
      year = {1996},
      note = {Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1890.},
      abstract = {Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) was incontestably one  of the greatest military generals of all time. From the  time he sacked Thebes and crossed the Hellespont to his  death eleven years later, he conquered the entire Persian  empire, including Tyre, Egypt, and Babylon, and moved on to  present-day northern India and Afghanistan. He influenced  the spread of Hellenism throughout the Near East and Asia,  establishing many cities such as Alexandria that flourished  long after his death.This classic study of Alexander, his  predecessors, and his influence on the art of war remains  fascinating and relevant over a hundred years after its  initial publication. The classical works dealing with  warfare in and before Alexander's time gave little more  than bare facts of military matters; Dodge's contribution  was to vividly reconstruct every major battle of  Alexander's brilliant military career, to provide  background material concerning the art of war before and  during Alexander's reign, and to fully illustrate his  narrative with invaluable maps and charts. The result is a  masterpiece of military history--the book that inspired  General J. F. C. Fuller to write his own classic study of  Alexander, and one which will similarly inspire generations  of future readers.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/349669},
}