Before you is a fascinating book dedicated to the military history of the first of the empires of the Old World - Macedonian. King Philip turned Macedonia into the most powerful state of Greece, and the campaigns of his son Alexander led to the expansion of the borders of the Greek world up to India and turned into the emergence of a syncretic "west-eastern" civilization - Hellenism. And all his short life, Alexander played a risky gambit with Oikumena, dreaming of realizing the divine idea - to unite all the peoples of the world, raising them to a single universal human standard. The Macedonian Gambit is considered one of the most outstanding examples of military strategy. The book is provided with illustrations, maps and detailed appendices. It will be of interest to all lovers of military history.