ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S CAMPAIGNS: A GUIDE TO ANCIENT POLITICAL AND MILITARY WARGAMING
Written by Phil Barker
Published by Patrick Stephens
in 1979
ISBN: 0850593255
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- HISTORY (GREEK)
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S CAMPAIGNS: A GUIDE TO ANCIENT POLITICAL AND MILITARY WARGAMING
Written by Phil Barker.
Stock no. 1822142
1st.
1979.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
As well as being an immensely readable and superbly detailed account of Alexander the Great's actual campaigns, this book also enquires into many historical might-have-beens and gives boundless practical advice and information for all Ancient wargamers. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w maps & battle plans. ISBN: 0850593255. Text block lightly browned and slightly grubby. Endpapers lightly browned. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Macedonia and its neighbours before Alexander
- Chapter 2 - Macedonian expansion during Alexander's boyhood
- Chapter 3 - The armies of Greece
- Chapter 4 - The Macedonian army after Philip's reforms
- Chapter 5 - Securing the home base: Alexander's Greek and Balkan campaigns, 336 BC to 335 BC
- Chapter 6 - The Persian Empire and its army
- Chapter 7 - Sea fighting, siege warfare and logistics
- Chapter 8 - The conquest of Asia Minor: the Granikos campaign, 334 BC to 333 BC
- Chapter 9 - Persian counter-attack: the Issos campaign
- Chapter 10 - Gathering the fruits of victory: Phoenician and Egyptian campaigns, 333 BC to 331 BC
- Chapter 11 - The trust into the heartland: the Gaugamela campaign, 331BC
- Chapter 12 - The great pursuit: mopping up in Babylonia, Persis and Media
- Chapter 13 - An empire under new management: Baktrian and Skythian campaigns, 330 BC to 327 BC
- Chapter 14 - Indian armies and Macedonian changes to meet them
- Chapter 15 - To the edge of the world: the campaigns in India 327 BC to 326 BC
- Chapter 16 - An appointment in Babylon: the return west, 326 BC to 323 BC
- Chapter 17 - Sequels and might-have-beens
- Chapter 18 - Organising and running an Ancient wargames campaign: guidance for umpires
- Chapter 19 - Taking part in an Ancient wargames campaign: the rules players work to
- Chapter 20 - A gazetteer of states and provinces for an Alexandrian wargames campaign
- Bibliography