Award-winning historian and best-selling author William Dalrymple returns with a dazzling new book, Return of a King - the Battle for Afghanistan.  This history of the first Anglo-Afghan war resonates with contemporary politics and reads like a richly-drawn novel.  Using previously undiscovered Afghan sources, and with a complex set of characters, from shahs and emirs, British generals and Russian ambassadors, Return of a King presents the full picture of Britain's disastrous adventure in Afghanistan, and asks: have we learned anything from history?

Asia House, 63 New Cavendish St, London W1G 7LP

Time : 18.45 - 20.00

Tickets £10, £8 Concession, £6 Friends

Phone: 020 7307 543

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