bout de papier, Volume 16, Issue No. 1, 1999
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
RETURN OF A KING: THE BATTLE 1 FOR AFGHANISTAN by William « Dalrymple, 2013, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 568 pp., $22.00.
The Great War in Africa
Early in this fine book, Farwell takes his readers to a London courtroom. “A witness spoke of a message [received from] Togoland. The judge comfortably enquired, Where is Togoland?’ ‘It is one of those places we have recently acquired my lord, ‘Cheap?’…
