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About STRIFE! Ambition, Folly, and Fury (Unabridged)

History is not a dry list of dates and treaties. It is a visceral, bloody drama written in Ambition, Folly, and Fury. In STRIFE!, the past is ripped from the textbook and brought to life with mud on its boots and blood on its hands. This is a journey into the human heart to discover the true engines of conflict that have shaped our world. PART I: AMBITION The Fire That Forges Empires Walk with the brilliant and ruthless as they bend history to their will. CHARIOTS OF WAR: The Bronze Age battle that redefined warfare. ALEXANDER THE GREAT: A conqueror's relentless thirst for glory. SCIPIO VS. HANNIBAL: The anatomy of victory at Zama. CAESAR CROSSES THE RUBICON: The moment that doomed the Roman Republic. GENGHIS KHAN: World-building fury from the saddle. FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE: The siege that reshaped the world.

PART II: FOLLY The Carnival of the Absurd Witness grand designs crumble from ego and incompetence. WAR OF JENKINS' EAR: A sailor’s severed ear ignites global war. THE KETTLE WAR: Naval absurdity where a single shot hit a soup kettle. BATTLE OF KARÁNSEBES: An army attacks itself in a drunken farce. THE PASTRY WAR: Nations mobilize over a pastry. GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN: The grand delusion of a WWI catastrophe.

PART III: FURY The Storm Where Reason Evaporates When ambition fails, only raw, desperate will remains. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: Revolutionary madness that consumed a nation. THE ALAMO: A desperate last stand that became a legend. CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE: A glorious charge into the Valley of Death. THE WINTER WAR: Righteous hatred against an invader ten times their size. OPERATION MINCEMEAT: The brilliant deception of the corpse that fooled Hitler.

From the ancient world to the modern era, STRIFE! reveals the timeless human passions at the core of history.