An excellent book, scholarly yet easy to read, detailing the collapse of Alexander the Great's empire after his death, a time period with which even most classicists of my acquaintance are not particularly familiar. One aspect of the period too often ignored by historians that receives excellent treatment in this book is the degree to which the Macedonians really loathed and belittled the Greeks, a peculiar form of early racism, made apparent in the treatment of Eumenes, the one Greek among the Macedonians vying for power after Alexander (he holds out almost until the end, but it does not end well for poor Eumenes, mostly because he was Greek and the Macedonians hated him for it). Recommended to anyone with an interest in ancient Greek and Mediterranean history . . .