Professor of History Frank L Holt: Bones sku-30038451

Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan, from the Hellenistic Culture and Society series, is a hardcover Military History Books title by Professor of History Frank L Holt. It is Series #47, Edition 1; SKU sku-30038451. Holt traces Alexander's campaigns in ancient Bactria, in what is now northern Afghanistan, and examines their historical, archaeological and numismatic legacy.

George W. Bush called the modern conflict the "first war of the twenty-first century"; the book looks back more than 2,300 years to Alexander's invasion. It describes the campaigns' effects on Alexander, his generals, their troops and the wider world, as well as the local warlords who resisted the Greeks, at times driving them toward mania and mutiny.

Holt also places Britain's nineteenth-century, the Soviets' twentieth-century and the United States' twenty-first-century invasions of Afghanistan alongside Alexander's campaign.