Arrian's careful history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, based on now-lost eyewitness sources. It is the most reliable surviving account of Alexander's conquests.
Sources for Arrian — The Anabasis of Alexander
Arrian — The Anabasis of Alexander in War & Military Thought
Held in the War & Military Thought chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Tjaneni — An Account of the Battle of Megiddo (−1457)
- Sun Tzu — The Art of War (−500)
- Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (−400)
- Xenophon — Anabasis (The March of the Ten Thousand) (−370)
- Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars (−50)
- Carl von Clausewitz — On War (1832)
- Antoine-Henri Jomini — The Art of War (1838)