The Anabasis of Alexander

The definitive history of Alexander the Great, by the soldier-scholar who sifted the eyewitness accounts. Writing four centuries after the events, Arrian of Nicomedia — himself a Roman general — followed the memoirs of Alexander's own officers Ptolemy and Aristobulus in preference to the legends, and produced the soberest and most trusted narrative of the campaigns: the crossing into Asia, the Granicus, Issus, and Gaugamela, the fall of Tyre and the burning of Persepolis, the march to India and the mutiny at the Hyphasis, and the death at Babylon. A history of conquest from the inside, read beside the Greek.