ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE LOGISTICS OF THE MACEDONIAN ARMY

Berkeley: University of California Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1978. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0520034333 . First edition, first printing (full number line). Publisher's full burgundy cloth, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with 16 maps, in addition to numerous tables and charts. Includes detailed Bibliography and Index. A detailed study of Alexander the Great's Macedonian Army and its logistical operations and management. "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. . . .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."—New York Review of Books. "A volume for a considerable range of readers. . . . It should be of interest to all students of military history before the advent of steam and, indeed, to anyone interested in movements of early population."—Annals. "[Engels] has achieved the apparently impossible: he has shed new and solid light on Alexander's campaigns. . . . Rarely have I encountered as good a monograph."—Military Affairs.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket (now in Mylar) are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. Scarce in this perfect condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. B&W Charts and Maps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiv, 194 pp .