Return of a King The Battle for Afghanistan 1839 42 First Edition by William Dalrymple ISBN 0307948536 978-0307948533

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ISBN 10: 0307948536 

ISBN 13: 978-0307948533

Author: William Dalrymple

A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus Reviews

In 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghanistan and installed the exiled Shah Shuja on the throne as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans exploded into rebellion. The British were forced to retreat—and were then ambushed in the mountains by simply-equipped Afghan tribesmen. Just one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the story of this colonial humiliation and illuminates the key connections between then and now. Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers. Dalrymple explains the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, their stranglehold on politics, and how they ensnared both the British of the nineteenth century and NATO forces today. Rich with newly discovered primary sources, this stunning narrative is the definitive account of the first battle for Afghanistan.

Table of contents:

1. No easy place to rule
2. An unsettled mind
3. The great game begins
4. The mouth of hell
5. The flag of holy war
6. We fail from our ignorance
7. All order is at an end
8. The wail of bugles
9. The death of a king
10. A war for no wise purpose.

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