I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. So begins
Alexander's extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis
of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and
utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior's unflinching eye
for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics of his greatest
battlefield victories. Whether surviving his father's brutal
assassination, presiding over a massacre, or weeping at the death of a
beloved comrade-in-arms, Alexander never denies the hard realities of
the code by which he lives: the virtues of war. But as much as he was
feared by his enemies, he was loved and revered by his friends, his
generals, and the men who followed him into battle. Often outnumbered,
never outfought, Alexander conquered every enemy the world stood against
him-but the one he never saw coming. . . .