Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army / Donald W. Engels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engels, Donald W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--Military leadership.

Alexander.

Logistics--History--To 1500.

Logistics.

Macedonia--History, Military.

Macedonia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1980.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same again. . . .Engels at last uses all the archaeological work done in Asia in the past generation and makes it accessible. . . . Careful analyses of terrain, climate, and supply requirements are throughout combined in a masterly fashion to help account for Alexander's strategic decision in the light of the options open to him...The chief merit of this splendid book is perhaps the way in which it brings an ancient army to life, as it really was and moved: the hours it took for simple operations of washing and cooking and feeding animals; the train of noncombatants moving with the army. . . . this is a book that will set the reader thinking. There are not many books on Alexander the Great that do."--New York Review of Books.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables and Maps

Acknowledgments

Frequently Abbreviated Works

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Macedonian Army and Its Logistic System

Chapter 2. Greece and Turkey

Chapter 3. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and Iraq

Chapter 4. Iran and Afghanistan

Chapter 5. Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, and Southern Iran

Chapter 6. Conclusion

Appendix 1. Rations

Appendix 2. The Site of the Pinarus

Appendix 3. Approximate Chronology of the Gedrosian Campaign

Appendix 4. Alexander's Route in the Gedrosian Desert

Appendix 5. Statistical Tables

Note on the Maps

Maps

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520352162

0520352165

OCLC:

1198931185