Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
By William Dalrymple | Free PDF Download | Ebook download
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- Title: Return
of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
- Author: William Dalrymple
- Publisher: Knopf
- Pages: 560
- Size: 5 MB
- Language: English
- Extension: PDF
- Year: 2013
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
By William Dalrymple | Free PDF Download | Ebook download
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded
Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah Shuja on the throne, in
reality as their puppet, and ushering in a period of conflict over the
territory still unresolved today. In 1842, the Afghan people rose in answer to
the call for jihad against the foreign occupiers, and the country exploded into
violent rebellion. In what is arguably the greatest military humiliation ever
suffered by the West in the East, more than eighteen thousand cold and hungry
British troops, Indian sepoys and camp followers retreated through the icy
mountain passes, and of the last survivors who made their final stand at the
village of Gandamak, only one man, Dr Brydon, made it through to the British
garrison at Jellalabad. An entire army of what was then the most powerful
military nation in the world was utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen.
The West's first disastrous entanglement in Afghanistan has clear and relevant
parallels with the current deepening crisis today, with extraordinary
similarities between what NATO faces in cities like Kabul and Kandahar, and
that faced by the British in the very same cities, fighting the very same
tribes, nearly two centuries ago. History at its most urgent, The Return of a
King is the definitive analysis of the first Afghan war. With access to a whole
range of previously undiscovered sources, including crucial new material in
Russian, Urdu and Persian, and contemporary Afghan accounts including the
autobiography of Shah Shuja himself, prize-winning and bestselling historian
William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster
is a powerful and important parable of neo-colonial ambition and cultural
collision, folly and hubris, for our times.
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
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