Fire, Earth, and the Silent Sky: The Untold War for Central Asia

Fire, Earth, and the Silent Sky: The Untold War for Central Asia When Alexander the Great crossed the Hindu Kush in the depths of winter, he believed he was completing the conquest of an empire. He had no idea he was about to fight the hardest war of his life against an enemy history barely remembers. Spitamenes was a Sogdian nobleman whose name echoed that of Zoroaster himself, and when Macedonia...