Return of a King : : the Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
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Dramatis personae -- The Sadozais and the Barakzais -- No easy place to rule -- An unsettled mind -- The great game begins -- The mouth of hell -- The flag of holy war -- We fail from our ignorance -- All order is at an end -- The wail of bugles -- The death of a king -- A war for no wise purpose.
Examines the mid-nineteenth-century Afghan war as the result of neocolonial ambition and cultural clashes, drawing on primary sources to explore the human toll of the war and the similarities between it and the present-day conflict.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: xxxviii, 515 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307948533
0307948536
SUBJECTS
Shāh Shujāʻ, -- Amir of Afghanistan, -- 1780?-1842.
British -- Afghanistan -- History -- 19th century.
Afghanistan -- History -- British Intervention, 1838-1842.
Afghanistan -- History, Military -- 19th century.