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THE VIRTUES OF WAR: A Novel of Alexander the Great. By Steven Pressfield. Published by Doubleday. 368 pages. Stock #0385500998. $22.46 MCA Members. $24.95 Nonmembers.
Fair warning to all readers of "The Virtues of War": This book is so powerfully written and so epic in scope that those who turn the first page will quickly find they are eyewitnesses to history, as it happens.
Author Steven Pressfield, who also wrote "The Legend of Bagger Vance," writes now a fictional account of the extraordinary tale of Alexander the Great's conquests and battles during his reign from 336 to 323 B.C. During that brief period, Alexander conquered all of the then-known world and established an empire that has never again been equaled.
In telling this story, Pressfield adopts a first-person style with Alexander himself delivering the narrative. The result is a book that comes alive, and we soon intimately know all of the real-life characters that peopled Alexander's army. Even better, we are inside...