A Choice of Destinies
"...Alexander of Macedon poised at the Oxus, ready to invade India in his drive for world dominion and his search for earth-encircling Ocean. Though he was never defeated in battle, the endeavor ended in disaster, and the physical debility brought on by the trans-Oxus campaign may well have caused his death a few years later. What might have happened had Alexander, at the height of imperial splendor, instead turned West, to face the power that was Rome?"--Page 4 of cover.