Alexander: God King Man Publisher / 5 Continents Seen by many as the

Seen by many as the first existentialist novel and showcasing the best of Dostoevsky's dry humour

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Alexander: God King Man Publisher / 5 Continents Seen by many as theA stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a series of important new discoveries and the author's own translations of source material from twelve ancient languages. In 336 BCE, at the age of twenty, Alexander, a wide eyed boy from the hills of Macedon, inherited a tumbledown kingdom, a pile of debts and an army which answered to nobody. Desperate to hold on to power, he led the army east, into the heart of the vast Persian