...which no Western (Russia included)power has ever won.Rory Stewart's documentary on BBC2 is well worth watching.
Ben Gemmingen ● 1889d3 Comments
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan is a nice complement to The Great Game. The Silk Roads states that the Persian Empire (in which Afghanistan is included) is where Western civilization began. It's an interesting take.
Phil Hopkins ● 1889d
'Return of the King' William Dalrymple. We never learn.
Helen Whitman ● 1889d
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.Kipling again
James Roy ● 1889d