Historical Fiction - Ancient Mediterranea

Also a very special to me is Forsythe Saga. Speaking about the great family story.

BUt my all time favourite always will be - of mice and men.

 

It's the story of the least most famous (in my opinion) Alexander's campaign, against the rebel Afghan kingdoms of the falling Persian Empire.

 

What I liked about this book, is that is not following the perspective of a general, or a politician or even Alexander's. It is about the story of a soldier, and the problems that the footsoldiers and cavalry men had, in the harsh environment of modern day Iraq and Afghanistan, against an enemy that :

 

Here the foe does not meet us in pitched battle, as other armies we have dueled in the past..�Even when we defeat him, he will not accept our dominion. He comes back again and again. He hates us with a passion whose depth is exceeded only by his patience and his capacity for suffering.

 

I think that Pressfield, in his latest novel, tries to make a comparison between the ancient era (Alexanders army in Afghanistan)  and  the modern era (US and NATO soldiers, in Afghanistan and Iraq), sometimes he succeds, some times he fails.

 

River God and Warlock( Both set in Egypt) by Wilbur Smith

 

 

The sub rosa series by Steven Saylor- mysteries set during late Republic Rome

 

First Man in Rome series - Collen McCullough

 

 

Gods and Legions - by Michael Curtus Ford