Description: A novel about Alexander the Great's three-year campaign in the Afghan kingdoms, 330-328 BCE. A dead ringer for the U.S.’s war in the same deserts and mountains, still going on today.
This book came immediately after The Virtues of Wa r. There’s a chapter in Virtues titled Badlands. It’s about Alexander’s campaign in the Afghan kingdoms, 330-327 BCE.
As I was writing it, I thought, This is a book all by itself. I have to come back to this and write another volume just on this subject.
Why did I think that? Because Alexander’s war in the region that would become Afghanistan (it was called Bactria, Areia, Arachosia, Drangiana, Gedrosia and Sogdiana in his day) was a dead-ringer for our American war in the same places 2300 years later.