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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 - Ebook written by William Dalrymple. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42.
Books. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42. From William Dalrymple--award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer--a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time ...
Return of a King The Battle for Afghanistan. William Dalrymple (Author) Share; Return of a King The Battle for Afghanistan. William Dalrymple (Author) Paperback $24.99 $22.49 Ebook (Epub & Mobi) $19.99 $15.99. ... Return of a King is history at its most urgent and important. Read an extract.
14 de ene. de 2014 · And as the latest occupying force in Afghanistan negotiates its exit, this chronicle seems all too relevant now.” — The Economist “In Return of a King, Dalrymple has done again what he did magnificently for two other telling episodes of British imperial history in White Mughals (2002) and The Last Mughal (2006). . . .
14 de ene. de 2014 · Dalrymple explains the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, their stranglehold on politics, ... Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42. William Dalrymple. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 14, 2014 - History - 592 pages.
Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality. Read An Excerpt.
Even 170 years later, the events described in Return of a King still have the power to shock - and so they should. It is to be hoped that any future British leader contemplating intervention in Afghanistan, or any other part of the Muslim world, will read Dalrymple's book.
