Conqueror's Road

In the spring of 334 BC a young king led his army across the narrow straits dividing Europe from Asia, stopped to honor the ruins of Troy, and hurled a spear into the sand of the far shore — claiming a continent as spear-won land. He was twenty-two years old. Twelve years later he was dead, master of the largest empire the world had yet seen, worshipped as a god, having marched his men from Greece...