Afghanistan: History is in the telling

Return of a King is the story of the mid-19th century British misadventure to restore the Afghan king Shah Shuja to his throne. Like much that William Dalrymple has written recently, it is an oversize narrative told through a cast of compelling characters, British and South Asian, caught up in a period of historical significance, in this case one of Britain’s great military disasters. It is a very readable book, and it has been extensively researched.

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