Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan [Audiobook] download free by William Dalrymple
- Listen audiobook: Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
- Author: William Dalrymple
- Release date: 2014/12/30
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9781408831595
- Rating: 7.56 of 10
- Votes: 313
- Review by: Natalia Akin
- Review rating: 9.03 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/18
- Duration: 7H41M5S in 256 kbps (121.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPEG4, WMA, MPEG-4 SLS, WAV, FLAC, AAC (compression CAB, ACE, CBZ, TAR.7Z, ZIP, RAR, AZW4)
- Total pages original book: 608
- Includes a PDF summary of 67 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 50M52S (13.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk.On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But 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 the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen.Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013, Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides and using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. Prize-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful and important parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris, for our times.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Asian History, Military History, Battles & Campaigns, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.91 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x40mm
- Weight: 544g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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