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“Here the enemy will not confront us in battle formations, as other armies we have fought in the past. Even if we defeat him, he will not accept our dominance. He hates us with such passion that only his patience and his ability to withstand pain surpass it.”
With words that could have been taken from today’s war reports, the author of the novel “The Gates of Fire” delivers a thrilling story that revives Alexander the Great's invasion in 330 B.C. of the kingdoms that would later become Afghanistan.
Through the narration of Mantitheos, a young infantry soldier in Alexander’s army, the Bleeding Campaign explores the challenges, both military and moral, that Alexander and his army face as they encounter an unprecedented form of warfare.
They are forced to adapt to the methods of a rugged enemy who uses guerrilla tactics, hides among the civilian population, and recruits women and children into his ranks. An aggressive army of the West, with humanitarian ideals, clashes with the wild peoples of the East, who are determined to defend their homes at all costs.
A young boy becomes a man amidst the horrors of war, experiencing the joys and sorrows of love, confronting the horrors of his enemies, his comrades, and his own. A book that is read in one breath, a dive into the very nature and pathology of war, with the last of humans, the simple soldier, as its vehicle and guide, his hope and despair facing what we call historical necessity and circumstance.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Steven Pressfield
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Original Title
- The Afghan Campaign
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Type
- Historical Novel
- Subtitle
- Historical novel
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 433
- Release Date
- 11/2006
- Publication Date
- 2006
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601622163
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