Into the land of bones : Alexander the Great in Afghanistan / Frank L. Holt.
Into the land of bones : Alexander the Great in Afghanistan / Frank L. Holt.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
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N939.6/2
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English
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p. cm.
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
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California
Date Published
c2005.
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The lively narrative situates the current war in Afghanistan in a broader historical perspective." "Holt explains how the three modern super-powers that have invaded Afghanistan - Britain in the nineteenth century, the Soviets in the twentieth, and the United States in the twenty-first - are continuing the struggle that Alexander began centuries ag...
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Into the land of bones : Alexander the Great in Afghanistan / Frank L. Holt.
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Hellenistic culture and society ; 47.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N939.6/2
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74VKqqL0Vkyl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKqqL0Vkyl
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ISBN
0520245539 :
9780520245532 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520245539 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520245532 :
DDC
939.6
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991020176759702626