Freya Stark - Alexander's Path also see:[ Phaselis, Termessus]

Steven Pressfield 'the Virtues of War" - Alexander's story thru his own eyes.

Into the Land of Bones -- review

Persepolis - Captured and sacked by Alexander

"Eighty percent of Afghans today live in the same exact landscape Alexander the Great must have beheld when he sacked Balkh in 327 B.C., and Genghis Khan when he sacked it again in 1221: walls of straw and mud, half-gnawed away by weather and age; hand-sown fields tilled by doubled-over farmers in unbleached robes with knobbly, wooden tools. Most have no electricity. No clean water. No paved roads. No doctors nearby..." Foreign Affairs, 4/28/2010

In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan. By Seth G. Jones. presents the war in its historical context, beginning with Alexander the Great and the proven ability of Afghans to bring down strong empires.

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