Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army (eBook)

Donald W. Engels (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
208 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-35216-2 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same again. . . .Engels at last uses all the archaeological work done in Asia in the past generation and makes it accessible. . . . Careful analyses of terrain, climate, and supply requirements are throughout combined in a masterly fashion to help account for Alexander's strategic decision in the light of the options open to him...The chief merit of this splendid book is perhaps the way in which it brings an ancient army to life, as it really was and moved: the hours it took for simple operations of washing and cooking and feeding animals; the train of noncombatants moving with the army. . . . this is a book that will set the reader thinking. There are not many books on Alexander the Great that do."e;-New York Review of Books

Inhalt

List of Tables and Maps
Acknowledgments
Frequently Abbreviated Works
Introduction

1. The Macedonian Army and Its Logistic System
2. Greece and Turkey
3. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and Iraq
4. Iran and Afghanistan
5. Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, and Southern Iran
6. Conclusion

Appendix
Note on the Maps
Maps
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Alexander the Great • ancient army • Ancient Greek History • Ancient history • Ancient World • archaeological work • Army • Asia • Climate • cooking • feeding animals • King • Macedon • macedonian army • military campaign • military history • noncombatants • Scholarship • semi fictional biography • strategic decisions • supply requirements • Terrain • washing
• ISBN-10: 0-520-35216-5 / 0520352165
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-35216-2 / 9780520352162