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 ...
Historian William Dalrymple's The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 is a magisterial new look at the First Afghan War, in which British and East India Company troops invaded ...
Nations, like people, seldom learn from their own experience, still less from the experience of others. It is a huge tribute to the tact of the distinguished British historian William Dalrymple that ...
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 ...
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