Why, for almost two and a half thousand years, no one - neither Hannibal, nor Caesar, nor Attila, nor Genghis Khan, nor Napoleon - no one was able to eclipse the glory of the great ancient Greek ruler, the brilliant commander Alexander the Great (356 -323 BC) AD) - Alexander the Great? Of course, Alexander was a great conqueror: in 11 years he created an empire with an area of 5.2 million square kilometers! He completely changed the face of the Ancient World. Even after the collapse of his empire, the peoples who inhabited it were no longer able to return to their former way of life. Alexander moved not only his phalanxes - he moved history! Having paved the way to Central Asia and India, he connected these areas with Europe, Egypt, Arabia, the Caucasus, and the Black Sea region. Another brilliant commander and reformer, Napoleon Bonaparte, said about him: “What admires me about Alexander the Great is not his campaigns, for which we have no means of assessing, but his political instinct.” Napoleon knew what he was talking about: he, too, having swept across Europe like a refreshing hurricane, left behind the Napoleonic Code, which turned European history around and created a new algorithm of life. The fate of Alexander the Great is striking, first of all, in its swiftness: it seems as if he lived and acted without in the 4th century BC, and today. Of course, he had wonderful “initial conditions”: royal origin, excellent education: his teacher was the great Aristotle himself, personal charisma and a completely manageable people. However, from youthful dreams of glory and campaigns: Alexander’s favorite reading was Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey - to the great The march to conquer semi-mythical India lies at a huge distance. And he overcame it in one leap! “Like a lawless comet in the circle of calculated luminaries,” Alexander the Great soared into the firmament of world history, eclipsed entire constellations and... faded? rolled up?.. No! shines today in all the splendor of its immortal splendor: delighting, terrifying and inspiring us today: this is fate! The young Macedonian king became a favorite hero for many centuries for different peoples. For the ancient world, he appeared in the image of a titan who transforms the world according to his understanding; for the Middle Ages he was an ideal knight, sacredly observing the honor of a warrior; for our time, he may well be considered the first globalist, a person who became an exponent of the change of eras, a bearer of a new political and cultural philosophy. It is in order to understand how a long-gone person continues to influence the minds and hearts of new generations, we invite you to read the works of ancient historians, the closest and further contemporaries of Alexander the Great, who through the millennia bring to us such an attractive in its contradictory image of the great commander. Electronic publication of the publication includes the full text of the paper book and a selected part of the illustrative material. And for true connoisseurs of gift editions, we offer a classic book. Like all publications in the “Great Commanders” series, the book is provided with detailed historical and biographical comments; The text is accompanied by hundreds of rare illustrations from Russian and foreign sources, many of which the modern reader will become familiar with for the first time. Beautiful printing, original design, the best offset paper - all this makes the books of the “Great Commanders” gift series the best gift for a man for all occasions.