William Dalrymple – Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Where: Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave.
212-288-6400 Price: $15
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Join prize-winning historian William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) for a masterly retelling of the first Afghan war, perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East: an important parable of neocolonial ambition and cultural collision, folly, and hubris, which continues to resonate into the 21st century. Followed by a book sale and signing.
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