Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple – review

In the late summer of 1842, two British armies marched through Afghanistan to avenge the destruction of a force sent three years earlier to effect a regime change in the central Asian kingdom. That mission – one of the largest military expeditions mounted by British troops and their local reinforcements in decades — had gone disastrously wrong. - Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple ... - Afghanistan