The year 1809 opened auspiciously for Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. It was now March, the very beginning of that brief Afghan spring, and the pulse was slowly returning to the veins of the icy landscape long ...
The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42. By William Dalrymple. Bloomsbury; 608 pages; £24.99. To be published in America in April by Knopf; $30. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk IN ...
American edition of "The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42" by William Dalrymple (R), shown here at Asia Society New York in February 2012. (Suzanna Finley/Asia Society) Dalrymple ...
A report from Noah Arjomand, titled “The Folly of Double Government: Lessons from the First Anglo-Afghan War for the 21st Century” and published by the Afghan Analysts Network this month, outlines why ...
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