The past appears before us as a continuous kaleidoscope, in which large and small wars, campaigns, battles on land and sea, sieges and assaults of fortresses and cities flash. Written sources have left us the names of people who became an integral part of world history. Hammurabi and Thutmose III, Ashurbanipal and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Muhammad, Charlemagne and Svyatoslav Igorevich... Their military genius led to significant changes on the political map of the world. Leonidas I and Lysander, Hannibal Barca and Sun Ping, Spartacus and Oleg the Prophet - they did not redraw the map of Eurasia, but their deeds became the pinnacle of military art. The famous historian and writer Alexei Shishov tells the story of the lives of one hundred great commanders of antiquity, whose actions led to the death or rise of peoples and states.