William Dalrymple - Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42

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.