The virtues of war : a novel of Alexander the Great

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Label

The virtues of war : a novel of Alexander the Great

Title remainder

a novel of Alexander the Great

Statement of responsibility

Steven Pressfield

Creator

• Pressfield, Steven

Subject

• Generals -- Fiction
• Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Fiction
• History
• War stories
• Kings and rulers -- Fiction
• Biographical fiction
• Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C
• Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Fiction
• Generals
• 359 - 323 B.C
• Fiction
• Greece
• Historical fiction
• Kings and rulers
• Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.)

Genre

• Fiction
• War stories
• Historical fiction
• Biographical fiction
• History

Language

eng

Summary

By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior's unflinching eye for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics of his greatest battlefield victories. Whether surviving his father's brutal assassination, presiding over a massacre, or weeping at the death of a beloved comrade-in-arms, Alexander never denies the hard realities of the code by which he lives: the virtues of war. But as much as he was feared by his enemies, he was loved and revered by his friends, his generals, and the men who followed him into battle

Cataloging source

DPB

Dewey number

813/.54

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3566.R3944

LC item number

V57 2005

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries