TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalrymple,William
TI  - The return of a king: the battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 
SN  - 9780307958280
AV  - DS359.7 .D35 2013
U1  - ARCH FRBC 958.103 D151R 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Shāh Shujāʻ,
KW  - British
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - British Intervention, 1838-1842
KW  - History, Military
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-497) 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
N2  - Examines the mid-19th-century Afghan war as a tragic result of neocolonial ambition, cultural collision and hubris, drawing on previously untapped primary sources to explore such topics as the reestablishment of a puppet-leader Shah, the conflict's brutal human toll and the similarities between the war and present-day challenges
ER  -