The Afghan Campaign
by Steven Pressfield
Alexander's three-year war in Afghanistan through a young Macedonian infantryman: insurgency, atrocity, the corruption of a soldier, and the limits of conquest. Written as commentary on modern wars.
Read it if…
you want insurgency understood through fiction.
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Skip it if…
you want Alexander's glory; it is the opposite.
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Three things you will actually use
- You cannot conquer a people who will not be conquered.
- War degrades the soldier.
- Victory can be defined out of reach.
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Read it alongside any account of the modern Afghan war.
Our verdict
Insurgency, through a soldier.
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