ALEXANDER
Alexander the Great's relentless march to the ends of the known world—and what happens when ambition has nowhere left to go.
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Chapters
13 total- 01Chapter One - Before the Storm
- 02Chapter Two - The Boy with a Tutor
- 03Chapter Three - Death of a King
- 04Chapter Four - Unleashing Hell
- 05Chapter Five - Into Persia
- 06Chapter Six - Burning the Palace
- 07Chapter Seven - Becoming a God
- 08Chapter Eight - Murder and Madness
- 09Chapter Nine - The Ends of the Earth
- 10Chapter Ten - The Empty Return
- 11Chapter Eleven - The Fall of a Titan
- 12Chapter Twelve - Legacy in Ruins
- 13Chapter Thirteen - He Taught the World to Want More
Edition notes and short pages
ALEXANDER
ALEXANDER
The Man Who Couldn’t Stop
by James Johnson
Dedication
To every person who’s ever felt too big for the map they were born into.
You’re not crazy.
You’re just early.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
TO THE COUNTLESS historians, translators, archaeologists, and myth-makers whose work helped preserve fragments of this colossal story.
To the authors of Anabasis, The Life of Alexander, and The Campaigns of Alexander.
To Arrian, Plutarch, Curtius, Diodorus, and the scribes who kept them breathing through centuries.
To my fellow world-breakers:
You know who you are.
And to Alexander.
You were a madman.
But damn if you didn’t make it poetic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JJ IS A writer, systems thinker, and narrative architect obsessed with the fault lines where myth, ambition, and power collide. He writes biographies not just of men, but of movements, civilizations, and the sparks that nearly reshaped the world.
If he had been born in 356 BCE, he’d probably have been in the Companion Cavalry or writing sarcastic plays about them.
COPYRIGHT
© 2025 JAMES JOHNSON. All rights reserved.
This work is a creative historical non-fiction piece. While based on real events, figures, and historical sources, elements of narrative style, dialogue, and interpretation are dramatized for readability and thematic clarity.
This book is not a substitute for academic research, it’s an entry point.
Alexander would probably demand worship for this book.
Please don’t.