In a brief and meteoric life (356-323 BC), Alexander the Great redirected the course of world history. He accomplished this feat with a small army - seldom exceeding 40,000 men - and a constellation of bold, revolutionary ideas about the conduct of war and the nature of government. J.F.C. Fuller, one of the foremost military historians of the 20th century, reveals the many sides to alexander and the full extent of his empire, which stretched from India to Egypt.