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RETURN OF A KING: The Battle for Afghanistan
de Dalrymple, William
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. xl+568, 32 coloured plates, black & white pictorial headpieces and text decorations, coloured pictorial endpapers, notes, bibliography, glossary, index; thick med. 8vo; red boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; ribbon marker; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, a couple of tiny spots of foxing to edges of leaves; Bloomsbury, London, 2013. First edition. *In 1839 the British invaded Afghanistan and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. 'After two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of what was then the most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat through high mountain snow drifts, and there utterly routed by Afghan tribesmen' [wrapper blurb].
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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- Título
- RETURN OF A KING: The Battle for Afghanistan
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- Dalrymple, William
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- Bloomsbury
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2013
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