Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt. The Military Life of Alexander the Great of Macedon.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1969. A biography of Alexander that stresses his military leadership and strategies.

Fox, Robin Lane. The Search for Alexander. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Lavishly illustrated with photographs and highly detailed, this full-scale biography is by an Oxford historian who won prizes for an earlier biography of Alexander.

Holtze, Elizabeth. "Review." School Library Journal 28 (November 1981): 106-107. A positive review that predicts that Krensky's biography will inspire readers to learn more about Alexander.

Renault, Mary. Fire From Heaven, 1969; The Persian Boy, 1972; Funeral Games, 1981. New York: Pantheon Books. Renault, renowned for her historical fiction about ancient Greece, created a trilogy of novels about Alexander that capture his charisma and nobleness of spirit and the devotion he inspired in others.

The Nature of Alexander. Ne York: Pantheon Books, 1975. This sophisticated and controversial biography attempts...