false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183660005m/1443761.jpg 1316 12 <i>I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life.</i> So begins Alexander&#8217;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&#8217;s unflinching eye for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics of his greatest battlefield victories. Whether surviving his father&#8217;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&#8211;but the one he never saw coming. . . . 1201083 2004 The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great total:336|5:83|4:134|3:93|2:22|1:4| 336 1278 513 50 1316 0553382055 9780553382051 325 46 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158206203m/1316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1316.The_Virtues_of_War_A_Novel_of_Alexander_the_Great 3 2 false Wed Apr 30 16:43:26 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 21:11:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1316 0553382055 9780553382051 325 46 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158206203m/1316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1316.The_Virtues_of_War_A_Novel_of_Alexander_the_Great 4 1 false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jun 25 16:35:13 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 14 21:14:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1316 0553382055 9780553382051 325 46 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158206203m/1316.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1316.The_Virtues_of_War_A_Novel_of_Alexander_the_Great 4 0 false Wed Feb 25 00:49:10 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 00:55:56 -0800 2009
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