About the book: year / The art of war is the same thing that led to the victory of the pharaohs Ahmose, Thutmose III and Ramesses II and helped them create the Egyptian empire. It helped the leader of a small Persian tribe, Cyrus II, to turn into the “king of kings and king of countries.” It was also what helped the King of Macedonia, Alexander III, to enter world history under the name of Alexander the Great. Here we talk about the military art of antiquity and the Middle Ages: Ancient Egypt, Assyria, Persia, the Greco-Persian wars, the formation of Alexander’s empire, the emergence of the military art of Ancient Rus', the conquests of Mongol generals, battles on the fields of Europe…