This is the first book about the legendary Greek commander King Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus captured Macedonia twice and assumed the diadem of Alexander. He took part in the largest battle of that era at Ipsa. Pyrrhus had to deal with almost every military system of the time: from the Macedonian phalangists and Spartan hoplites to the Roman legionnaires, the militias of the southern Italian highlanders and the Carthaginian fleet. He emerged victorious from most battles. As a commander, he was rated very highly by both his contemporaries and descendants. Description of the military campaigns of Pyrrhus is an encyclopedia of the military affairs of the Mediterranean states of the 4th - 3rd centuries BC. The book is equipped with appendices, maps, illustrations and will be of interest to both specialists and lovers of military history.