Alexander: the Ends of the Earth

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Summary: Interesting ...
Review: 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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Summary: Does it ever ends?
Review: 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.

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Summary: Better than other two books
Review: Maybe was because I get used to the writer style or because this book is more explicit, but I liked more this book than the other two, it still has many descriptions out of the story and things that happen only in Alexander's mind, how does anyone know what he was thinking at any time?
At the end of the three books you will understand that the way that Alexander conquered Asia and the way he treated the people was amazing and why all the people wanted to be behind him.

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Summary: Interesting
Review: 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.

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Summary: Alexander- The Ends of the Earth- The saga concludes
Review: The third and final chapter of Manfredi's `Alexander' series concludes the epic, and is as beautifully narrated as the first to volumes. Manfredi strikes again with his colour- ful narration and painstaking research. His scholarship continues to amaze.

Emperor Darius of Persia may have suffered a setback, but his armies are still huge and his resources are many. The great battle of Guagemala may have practically dethroned him, but his nobles rebel, and Alexander must face a new host of enemies. The wild plains of the Scythians and the eastern fortresses of the Persians provide new obstacles. Meanwhile discontent breeds among his armies.

Even as Alexander discovers love- the love of Roxanne, a beautiful Scythian princess, his soldiers are weary, and pine for their homes and families. But Alexander is determined to reach the ends of the earth and Porus, the valiant Indian king, and the deserts near the Sea are obstacles he must conquer.

This volume is different from the others. In this third part, Alexander's dark side emerges, and we begin to view him as a grey character, not the hundred percent hero he appears to be in the other volumes. This book is definitely darker than the others, but it still is a fantastic conclusion to an adventure born in the misty mountains of Macedon.