Recensione in italiano: QUI.
Good day everyone I’m Elena and thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia- Alexander the Great and Hellenism! Today I’m writing you about a reading that I think you could easily avoid:
Alexander the Great
by Aman Thakur
Independently published, 2023
ISBN: 979-8387353932, 68 pp.
This book is specially for children to tell about Alexander the great who was the great ruler of Macedonia. In this, their difficulties and achievements have been told which will inspire your children even more.
Reading time: March 28, 2023.
This time I stumbled across a scary book and if you trust my advice, don’t read it. It’s cheap, because I paid € 3.91 for the paperback version (fortunately it cost so little and now it’s dropped a tad bit in price) but it’s a book that exists only thanks to Amazon.
In terms of content and history, there isn’t very much: some informations are wrong and the author is more concerned with talking about the sarissas and the water channels than with Alexander’s life. He delves into marginal topics without having dealt well with the main one. He mentions the names of archaeologists but doesn’t bother explaining who they are and what they did, not to mention the sources that are never mentioned or named. In the book there are three images and the author sometimes refers to those to frame his speech but the main topic should be Alexander the Great. The little information that is reported on Alexander is hazy, told badly and it is quicker to say what is there and not what is missing: the most essential information is mentioned badly on the three battles against the Persian empire, Darius’ death, the conquest of India and Alexander’s death. Remember, however, that they are narrated in a very bad way, without being contextualized and explained. The only characters named are: Alexander, Philip, Darius, Aristotle and Bessus.
On top of that the writing form of this book is very, very bad: the author seems to have used Google Translator to translate his original text and has not even proofread it. Sometimes the Russians (!) are mentioned and the full meaning of the sentences is often missing. To all this is added a total lack of revision of the text, it isn’t paginated, a title page is missing. In the Amazon synopsis it is referred to as a children’s book but only because it has a large A4 format and is written in large characters doesn’t it become a children’s read.
This reading should give a very general smattering of Alexander but it does not, so is useless. Trust me!
Happy Sunday everyone,
Alessandro III di Macedonia 
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