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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-24 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched
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Authors: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
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During the 19th century Britain entered into three brutal wars with Afghanistan, each one saw the British trying and failing to gain control of a warlike and im
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Authors: William Dalrymple
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From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaste
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In 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful
The Dark Defile
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An account of the mid-19th-century war in Afghanistan documents how the British government sought to protect regional interests by attempting to install a puppe