@article{456933, author = {Dalrymple, William.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/456933}, title = {Return of a king : the battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 /}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {456933}, pages = {xxxviii, 515 p., [32] p. of plates :}, address = {New York :}, year = {2013}, }