The Dancing Floor of War: Throne of Darius 6

“There are four sides to every your side, their side, the truth, and what really happened.” -Rousseau History is written by the victors – but theirs is but one of the “four sides to every story” as Rousseau explained. In the THRONE OF DARIUS series author Mark G. McLaughlin allows those Greeks and Persians who stood AGAINST the warmongering tyranny of ALEXANDER of MACEDON to tell their side of the story. If Alexander met this story teller he would have chained and dragged his still living but broken body behind his chariot (as he did to the Persian garrison commander at Gaza). Why would he do so? For having the audacity to expose the brutal, murderous, merciless, and monstrous campaign by which the young Macedonian king sacked a score or more of cities, killed and enslaved tens if not hundreds of thousands of people, and brought down one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known. Here is the account the victors and those who seek to emulate them do not want told; the epic tale of the men and women who stood in defense of their homes, their families, and their very souls against a foreign invader. THE DANCING FLOOR OF WAR is the sixth book in the ongoing THRONE OF DARIUS series. In this volume Alexander battles his way across the Euphrates, crosses the Tigris and marches on Babylon – only to be met head-on by the Persian king of kings on the dusty plain of Arbela. There they will engage in the largest and bloodiest battle of the age, an epic struggle named for the little hamlet of Gaugamela, where two powerful monarchs will come face to face on the dancing floor of war.