Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan Volume 47

by Frank L. Holt

Book Overview

What George W. Bush called the "first war of the twenty-first century" actually began more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army into what is now a sprawling ruin in northern Afghanistan. Accounts of Alexander's invasion of ancient Bactria read eerily like news from our own day. In this vivid, meticulously researched, and elegantly narrated book, Frank L. Holt follows Alexander's historical, archaeological, and numismatic legacy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520245539
• ISBN13: 9780520245532
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.6"