Research Catalog
The Afghan campaign
- Title
- The Afghan campaign / Steven Pressfield.
- Author
- Pressfield, Steven.
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, c2006.
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Details
- Description
- 351 p. : maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In words that might have been ripped from today's combat dispatches, Pressfield, novelist of ancient warfare, returns with a recreation of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 B.C., a campaign that eerily foreshadows the tactics, terrors, and frustrations of contemporary conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Narrated by Matthias, a young infantryman in Alexander's army, this book explores the challenges, both military and moral, that Alexander and his soldiers face as they embark on a new type of war and are forced to adapt to the methods of a ruthless foe that employs terror and insurgent tactics, conceals itself among the civilian populace, and recruits women and boys as combatants.--From publisher description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-11352
- ISBN
- 038551641X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005046621
- 9780385516419
- OCLC
- 62741487
- Author
- Pressfield, Steven.
- Title
- The Afghan campaign / Steven Pressfield.
- Imprint
- New York : Doubleday, c2006.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
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- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780385516419 (hardcover) 52495
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-11352