Return of a King (Record no. 60238)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02008 a2200217 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 240506b 2013|||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781408862872 (PB) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 94(5) |
| Item number | DAL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Dalrymple, William |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Return of a King |
| Sub Title | : An Indian Army in Afghanistan |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Bloomsburry Publishing |
| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Place of publication | London |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xl, 567p. |
| Other physical details | col. ill. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. No easy place to rule<br/>2. An unsettled mind <br/>3. The great game begins<br/>4. The mouth of hell <br/>5. The flag of holy war <br/>6. We fail from our ignorance <br/>7. All order is at an end <br/>8. The wail of bugles <br/>9. The death of a king <br/>10. A war for no wise purpose |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk.On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen.Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013, Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides and using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. Prize-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful and important parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris, for our times |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | East India company |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Imperial Disaster |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Military Humiliation |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| IMSc Library | Second Floor Rack No:61 Shelf No:1 | 94(5) DAL | 77778 | BOOKS |