Alexander the Great: Epic and Legendary Leaders

The World's Greatest Myths and Legends

by Jake Jackson (Editor), Alexandra F. Morris (Introduction)

Alexander the Great was undefeated in battle and is considered to be one of history's most successful military commanders.

Alexander the Great died in 336 BCE, when he was only thirty-two. His military campaigns had swept across Ancient Greece, through Asia Minor, Arabia, Persia, Egypt and North Africa to North West India, forging one of the largest empires in recorded history. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's most successful military commanders. This new series is created for the modern reader to introduce the heroes, cultures, myths and religions of former times.

FLAME TREE 451 : From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

256 pages, Paperback

Published November 22, 2022

About the author

SF and dark fantasy author but also a writer/creator of practical music books - Beginner's Guide to Reading Music, Guitar Chords, Piano Chords, Songwriter’s Rhyming Dictionary and How to Play Guitar. Other publications include Advanced Guitar Chords, Advanced Piano Chords, Chords for Kids, How to Play the Electric Guitar, Piano & Keyboard Chords, Scales and Modes and Play Flamenco. Also editor of Mythology books 

Released EP Jakesongs on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, LastFM, etc and on CDBaby. Lifelong passion for fantastic worlds of any kind, from movies to fiction, art to music, posters, album and paperback book covers.

Jake Jackson is the artist name for Nick Wells, Publisher of Flame Tree Press / Flame Tree Publishing.

Reviews

[Nick Girvin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not to say that there wasn’t great information in this, but there are a few big problems. 1) the content itself is very dry and lifeless, or boring. There is very little personality in the language and it feels like much of it could have been written by AI. Some of that’s likely due to how old certain excerpts are, but come on, Adam Smith was more exciting than this and that was the mid 1700s. 2) the format is terrible, and it’s broken down as if they’re sections of the Bible. Really doesn’t help in terms of being interesting. 3) it’s very brief and not very detailed, however I can overlook that since I guess it’s made rather obvious due to its size.

For the $4 or so I spent, not terrible, but there are definitely better works in existence on Alexander the Great.

[Dee Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly, I couldn’t rationalize reading both “parts” due to redundancy.
I liked the first part by Jacob Abbott, although it was not a genuinely good history piece.
Moral of the story: Power turns good people bad.

[Benjamin Hambley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good although I think they could've researched some parts more thoroughly. The numbers for example in a few battles were clearly not serious.