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"Finally, Alexander's most enduring military legacy is probably his leadership skill. No other military leader in history understood the psychology of leadership so well. For heaven's sake, how else do you get a vast army to follow you for a decade, covering 22.000 miles on foot?

"Today, there is only one reason we know about Alexander and the enormous contributions he and other Greeks made to modern life: the Egyptians and Arabs. The Arabs, untouched by Christianity through most of the Dark Ages, translated Greek literary works into Arabic and preserved them. The irony is inescapable - we in the West know our heritage only because the people we conquered preserves it for us."

"Darius may have had more men in the fight, but Alexander had more fight in his men."

"Alexander's boyfriend, Hephaistion, reportedly left a wreath of on the tomb of Patroklos, Achilles' boyfriend. If they had all lived at the same time they'd have double-dated."

No lies detected.

"Vain? The boy-king makes Donald Trump look positively shy."

Aaaaaaaaah not even books published in 2004 are save! x____x

I'm already entertained. Which is all I want from this book.