'There is nothing impossible to him who will try . . .'

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) ascended to the throne of Macedon at the age of nineteen. He fought his greatest battles and conquered the seemingly invincible Persian Empire before he was twenty-five. He died at the age of thirty-two, undefeated by any enemy. His reputation as a warrior and leader of men is immortal, unsurpassed in the annals of history.

Epic in scope and magisterial in tone, ALEXANDER: THE VIRTUES OF WAR is the perfect combination of author and subject. Here Steven Pressfield, who almost single-handedly reinvented the classical historical novel with his acclaimed bestsellers GATES OF FIRE, TIDES OF WAR and LAST OF THE AMAZONS, tells the extraordinary story of this true colossus of the ancient world - avenger of his father's murder, student of Aristotle, commander of genius, ruthless conqueror of nations.

No one evokes warfare in the ancient world as brilliantly as Pressfield. Audaciously making Alexander himself the narrator of his own story, he gives us a vivid and thrilling sense of those brutal and bloody times from inside the mind of this legendary figure, a complex, charismatic man driven - and ultimately undone - by his insatiable lust for glory.

As immediate and gripping as bulletins from the front line and as intimate and revealing as a private diary, ALEXANDER: THE VIRTUES OF WAR is destined to become a classic of historical fiction.