Alexander

Alexander the Great was the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Already a renowned commander in the Macedonian army, he inherited his father's empire at the age of twenty and immediately set out to expand it.

He ruthlessly suppressed all who dared to rebel, and led violent and bloody campaigns throughout Persia, Egypt, India and Babylon - establishing new cities to glorify his name and destroying others in his path. Inspired in his leadership, fearless in battle and boundless in his ambition, Alexander's empire covered most of the known world and comprised two million square miles by the time of his death at thirty-two.

Pieced together afresh from Alexander's earliest biographers, this selection is the definitive portrait of a man who was worshipped as a god in his own lifetime and whose legend has only grown with time.