Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
de William Dalrymple
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0307958280
- ISBN 13
- 9780307958280
- Librería
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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NY: Knopf, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. Clean copy. Record # 381530
Sinopsis
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE is the author of seven previous works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; the best-selling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain’s most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 381530
- Título
- Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
- Autor
- William Dalrymple
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0307958280
- ISBN 13
- 9780307958280
- Editorial
- Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 2013
- Palabras clave
- History, asia, , .
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