{"product_id":"alexander-the-great-9","title":"Alexander The Great","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, \u003ci\u003eAlexander the Great \u003c\/i\u003esearches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Combining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, \u003ci\u003eAlexander the Great\u003c\/i\u003e brings this colossal figure vividly to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''So enjoyable and well-written ... Fox''s book became my main guide through Alexander''s amazing story''\u003cbr\u003e  Oliver Stone, director of \u003ci\u003eAlexander\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''I do not know which to admire most, his vast erudition or his imaginative grasp of so remote and complicated a period and such a complex personality''\u003cbr\u003e  Cyril Connolly, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''An achievement of Alexandrian proportions''\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRobin Lane Fox \u003c\/b\u003ewas the main historical advisor to Oliver Stone on his film \u003ci\u003eAlexander\u003c\/i\u003e, and took part in many of its most dramatic re-enactments. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Unauthorised Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTravelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320237531518,"sku":"NW9780141020761","price":14.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141020761.jpg?v=1778234850","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/alexander-the-great-9","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}