04-18-2002, 07:21 PM
A small but very dense book by Donald W. Engels which is a very detailed study of Alexanders campaigns from the logistic point of view. It's not the usual glamour associated with Alexander, it's the day to day work of the foragers, the supply trains, the headaches about what route to take and in which season and so on.<br>
It gives a striking picture of how an army moved by animal and human power only. As one of the --enthusiastic-- critics wrote: "Engels deals with what at first sight might seem the drab question of supplies, showing how the needs of an army of men on the move limited and conditioned the strategy of Alexander".<br>
The publisher is University of California Press. <p></p><i></i>
It gives a striking picture of how an army moved by animal and human power only. As one of the --enthusiastic-- critics wrote: "Engels deals with what at first sight might seem the drab question of supplies, showing how the needs of an army of men on the move limited and conditioned the strategy of Alexander".<br>
The publisher is University of California Press. <p></p><i></i>
