The return of a king : Shah Shuja and the first battle for Afghanistan / William Dalrymple.
Publication details: London Bloomsbury 2013 Description: 567pISBN: 9780307958280; 9781408818305Subject(s): Shāh Shujāʻ, Amir of Afghanistan, 1780?-1842 | British -- Afghanistan -- History -- 19th century | Afghanistan -- History -- British Intervention, 1838-1842 | Afghanistan -- History, Military -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 958.1/03 LOC classification: DS359.7 | .D35 2013
Contents:
No easy place to rule -- An unsettled mind -- The great game begins -- The mouth of hell -- The flag of holy war -- We fail from our ignorance -- All order is at an end -- The wail of bugles -- The death of a king -- A war for no wise purpose.
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DS339.4. T73 2008 Transnational South Asians : | DS340. M48 2007 Imperial connections : | DS35.6. E5313 2002 Islam : | DS359.7. D35 2013 The return of a king : Shah Shuja and the first battle for Afghanistan / | DS361. R555 2008 The march to Kandahar : | DS363. B75 2006 The British war in Afghanistan : the dreadful retreat from Kabul in 1842 / | DS363. M3 Signal catastrophe: the story of the disastrous retreat from Kabul, 1842 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
No easy place to rule -- An unsettled mind -- The great game begins -- The mouth of hell -- The flag of holy war -- We fail from our ignorance -- All order is at an end -- The wail of bugles -- The death of a king -- A war for no wise purpose.