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Title: A nice, short, lavishly illustrated account.
Review: This is a nice "starter volume" on Alexander - it provides a good (though bare) summary of Alexander's campaigns that is accompanied by wonderful art, maps, and pictures of archaeological remains. The brevity of the work means it's fast paced and this can sometimes cause a bit of confusion or a need to retrace one's steps a bit, but, so it is with such short works. There are helpful sidebars and an appendix that quote from various primary sources to add flavor and authority. It can pretty easily be read in one or two sittings (another plus, which allows one to quickly acquire a basic framework of knowledge and then move on to more complex works).
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