The Virtues of War

A Novel of Alexander the Great

De: Steven Pressfield

Narrado por: James Langton

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. . . .

©2004 Steven Pressfield (P)2004 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Insightful

This really puts you in the story of the battle between Alexander and Darius. It demonstrates the virtues through the story of his choices vs a heavy handed understanding history textbook
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incredible

an absolutely amazing listen narrated by a pro. Alexander truly lives through the reading of these pages

The Story Is Abridged

the audio production is fine but this is an significantly abridged version of the novel. the abridgment was not made clear at the beginning and the ending credits are contradictory stating that the production is abridged and also unabridged.