Dr Adrian Goldsworthy

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584 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 26 Feb

Dr Adrian Goldsworthy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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He's killed or wounded one man.
The man's brother comes around behind and is ready to chop down with either an axe or a falchion or some sort of heavy blow.
Slices off one of the side plumes of Alexander's helmet.
Perhaps, depending on the version, knocks him off his horse, maybe knocks him unconscious.
He's saved from being killed by Black Clitus.
One of the, again, one of Philip's men who's been set beside him, whose sister was Alexander's nurse at one point.
He is quicker off the mark and chops off the Persian satrap's arm, the Turkish aristocrat's arm, before he can strike that fatal blow.
But had that worked, Alexander could have been dead or crippled.
in this first battle.
And it comes back to that point.
If that happens, isn't the war over?
Because there's no obvious successor.
Certainly no one is going to be sufficiently secure to think, I can be fighting in Asia for months, years, and not worry about what's happening back in Massachusetts.
Yes, but that's the point.
His own men can see him, so can the enemy.
And it's basically saying,
It's a bit like the First World War, Baron von Richthofen painting his aircraft red.
You know who I am.
You can find me.
Try it if you want to, but I'm better than you.
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