Stephen Pressfield has garnered laurels for his ability to describe the utter brutality of ancient warfare and his descriptions of battles fought during the campaign of Alexander the Great in Afghanistan in his novel "The Afghan Campaign" are as wrenching as those depicted in Pressfield's "Gates of Fire".4/5. · The Afghan Campaign is yet another gripping historical novel Although set in ancient times, Pressfield’s narration of the Macedonians’ efforts reveals remarkable parallels to later efforts by the Romans, British, Soviets, and Americans an intense, fun, and thought-provoking www.doorway.ru: Crown Publishing Group. · The Afghan Campaign is the second. It details Alexander’s three-year campaign in the same country the U.S., the Russians, the Brits, and other would-be conquerors back to Cyrus the Great of Persia, all of whom were defeated and driven out by .
PRESSFIELD, Steven. The Afghan campaign. Read by John Lee. 8 cds, 10 hrs. Books on Tape. $ Vinyl; plot notes. SA* It's impossible to listen to this riveting historical novel without recognizing that it could almost have been ripped from today's headlines: an invading Western army battling a fiercely determined foe in the geographically hostile environment of what is. Stephen Pressfield has garnered laurels for his ability to describe the utter brutality of ancient warfare and his descriptions of battles fought during the campaign of Alexander the Great in Afghanistan in his novel "The Afghan Campaign" are as wrenching as those depicted in Pressfield's "Gates of Fire". Preview — The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield. The Afghan Campaign Quotes Showing of 1. "These scars on my body," Alexander declared, "were got for you, my brothers. Every wound, as you see, is in the front. Let that man stand forth from your ranks who has bled more than I, or endured more than I for your sake.
The Afghan Campaign is a historical novel by the American writer Steven Pressfield. It was first published in by Doubleday. [1] It is the story of Alexander the Great 's invasion of the Afghan kingdoms (the Afghanistan of today) in BC through the eyes of Matthias (Μαντίθεος in Greek), a young soldier from Macedonia, who narrates the adventures of the Macedonian army against the Eastern warriors. The Afghan Campaign is yet another gripping historical novel Although set in ancient times, Pressfield’s narration of the Macedonians’ efforts reveals remarkable parallels to later efforts by the Romans, British, Soviets, and Americans an intense, fun, and thought-provoking read. In words that might have been ripped from today’s combat dispatches, Steven Pressfield, the bestselling novelist of ancient warfare, returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great’s invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in B.C., a campaign that eerily foreshadows the tactics, terrors, and frustrations of contemporary conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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