English Stephen. The Field Campaigns of Alexander the Great

Submitted for the Degree of PhD Department of Classics and Ancient History. — Durham: University of Durham 2009. — 268 p.The purpose of this thesis is an examination of the military career of Alexander the Great. The intention is to reconstruct and examine every campaign of Alexander's brief reign, and to determine what the tactics and strategies were that allowed his unparalleled success; further to determine if there was a development in tactical or strategic thought during his life.Considers Alexander's first campaign in the Balkans and northern Greece.
Discussesth e Battle of the GranicusR iver, and attemptsa n entirely new theory.
A discussion of the sieges of Miletus and Halicarnassus.
Contains an examination of the campaign of Issus.
Concentrates on the sieges of Tyre and Gaza.
Discusses the battle of Gaugamela.
Concentrates on the campaign on the north-east frontier: Bactria and Sogdiana.
Focuses on the campaign in India, culminating in the battle of the Hydaspes
River.
An examination of the journey back to Babylon: the final campaign.
The conclusion which draws together the arguments which run through the thesis.