Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Paperback)
William Dalrymple (author)- In stock online
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408831595
Number of pages: 608
Weight: 544 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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Enchantingly written ... In Dalrymple's usual happy style of historical narrative, applied to a fascinating, neat and highly suggestive series of events, this long and involved book will be a great success, and bring the famous story to a large new audience -- Philip Hensher * Spectator *
Of the books swooped into being by his scholarship (to which he himself has applied the adjective "obsessive"), this one is the most magnificent ... His account is so perceptive and so warmly humane that one is never tempted to break away ... This book would be compulsive reading even if it were not a uniquely valuable history, which it is, because Dalrymple has uncovered sources never used before -- Diana Athill * Guardian *
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I first came across the 19th Century Afghan War in Philip Hensher's The Mulberry Empire, when the lead character finds himself standing on a plain of skulls, this book will tell you how they got there.
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“TORTUOUS”
A very detailed history that was tedious to read and very depressing in content (as it reveals just how incompetent that the political and military leaders of the time were, and how the same defects reappear time... More
“Historians delight”
William Dalrymple is an intelligent articulate author who retells the story of Britain’s first invasion of Afghanistan in a way that keeps the reader hooked. He has researched so many new sources in order to improve... More
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