This is a fascinating book dedicated to the military history of the first of the empires of the Old World - Macedonian. King Philip turned Macedonia into the most powerful state of Greece, and the campaigns of his son Alexander led to the expansion of the borders of the Greek world right up to India and resulted in the emergence of a syncretic “west-east” » civilization - Hellenism. And throughout his short life, Alexander played a risky gambit with the Ecumene, dreaming of realizing the divine idea - to unite all the peoples of the world, raising them to a single universal standard. The Macedonian Gambit is considered one of the most outstanding examples of military strategy. The book is equipped with illustrations, maps and detailed appendices. It will be of interest to all military history buffs.