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Title: Alexander: The Ends of the Earth : A Novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi ISBN: 0-7434-3438-2 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Does it ever ends?
Comment: In this 3rd installation, Alexander marches on and on until the ends of the earth it seems. Alexander is victorious throughout his campaigns that the narrative just became a list of battles. I wondered why his poor opponents bothered fighting him at all - "Hail Alexander. Here are the keys to the city."
Alexander's sheer determination in his enterprise is admirable, very much Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, relentlessly driving his army onwards through rain, sun and snow, dessert and tropical forest. The sheer scale of his achievements is truly magnificent in grandeur. In victory Alexander was crowned King of Macedon, Chairman of the Pan-Hellenic League, Pharoah of Egypt and Emperor of Persia.
Alexander wanted to test the limits of Man and God and indeed he stood a towering Titan. But ultimately was a mortal and he died of fever, ungloriously away from the battlefield.
Alexander proved to be a great military leader but his statesmanship was unproven.
It's a wonderful account of Alexander's final journey in his enterprise to challenge the limits of man. In my opinion he did very well for a man but poorly for a God.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting
Comment: The End of the Earth is the third and last volumen of the trilogy which tell us how Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, the triumphal entry in Babylon, the sack and destruction of Persepolis, the run away of Darius from Alexander till the first one is murdered by his close collaborators and the conquest of all the kingdom of the greek known world. Also this volumen tell us how was the morale of Alexander's troops, tired of so long campaign want to return home against their leader plans of world domination. Although the end of Alexander is well known, his dead is poorly treated in this book, I expected a little more details and the inmediate consequences after the decease. Excellent Phtolomy epilogue as an old egyptian pharaoh who in few words tell us how Alexander's Empire ended so bloodly.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting ...
Comment: A popular rendition of the Alexander's history. A bit kitsch a times, but still good if you cannot digest standard history text.
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Title: Alexander: Child of a Dream by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Iain Halliday ISBN: 0743434366 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Spartan : A Novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi ISBN: 0743475429 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece by Michael Curtis Ford ISBN: 0312269463 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Gates of Fire : An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield ISBN: 0553580531 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 31 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Last Legion by Valerio Massimo Manfredi ISBN: 0333907698 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pub. Date: 07 February, 2003 |
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