Professor Edmund Richardson: Alexander: GOD. KING. MAN. | Hereford Military History Festival

In 336 BCE, at the age of twenty, Alexander, a wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon, inherited a tumbledown kingdom, a pile of debts and an army which answered to nobody. In Alexander : GOD. KING. MAN. Professor Edmund Richardson tells how, desperate to hold on to power, he led the army into the heart of the vast Persian Empire, and inadvertently began the greatest military campaign in history. Alexander has remained a mystery, but now, the ruins of his cities have emerged from the bottom of the sea and the dust of Central Asian hillsides. The diaries of Babylonian astronomers who knew him have been deciphered. The tombs of his ancestors have been unearthed. Based on more than a decade of cutting-edge research from the catacombs of Egypt to the passes of Afghanistan, readers can feel the desert wind and experience the full horror of battle. Alexander is a cinematic, revelatory retelling of one of the most elusive stories in history.