Alexander the Great Avenger
The Campaign that Felled Achaemenid Persia
$86.88
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2023
Summary
Since 500 BC, mainland Greece had been under threat from the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Despite suffering major invasions, subsequent attempts to go on the offensive had been thwarted. With Alexander the Great’s invasion, the rules changed.
In Macedonia, a new model army had been developed, taking traditional hoplite heavy infantry in a new evolutionary direction and similarly transforming the heavy cavalry. These developments neutralized the Persians’ own efforts to modernize their t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399073929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399073923 |
| Author: | Manousos E. Kambouris |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Military |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 864g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
”…an excellent account and analysis of Alexander’s campaign against Persia.“– “Historical Miniatures Gaming Society”
”[A]bsolutely essential reading for academia and non-specialist general readers with an interest in Alexander the Great and his conquests…“– “Historical Miniatures Gaming Society”
Manousos E. Kambouris
Manousos E Kambouris has a background in scientific writing, contributing chapters on a wide range of disciplines to various edited volumes and journals. He has been researching Ancient Greek warfare for many years and has published numerous articles in Archeologija Prirodne Na (Archaeology and Science), Ancient Warfare, Military History, War & History, NUOVA ANTOLOGIA MILITARE, Third Eye and Hellenic Nexus. He has written three previous books on Marathon, Salamis and Xenophon’s Ten Thousand. For the past 8 years he has been a historical consultant to the experimental archaeology group Koryvantes, the Association of Historical Studies. In 2022 Pen & Sword published his trilogy on the Greco-Persian Wars to 479 BC (The Rise of Persia and the First Greco-Persian Wars; Persia Triumphant in Greece: The High Tide, 481-480 BC and The Greek Victories and the Persian Ebb 480-479 BC) and in early 2023 will publish The Trojan War as Military History.
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