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He is a contributing editor of city journal and frequent contributor to the london spectator, the new criterion, and other leading magazines and. Informed by the authors decadeslong firsthand knowledge of afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, the return of a king is both the definitive analysis of the first angloafghan war and a work of stunning topicality. The east india company, corporate violence, and the. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading return of a king. In fact lets just say that in my opinion, narrative history that is as good as it gets.
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