The Dark Defile (49 page)
Authors: Diana Preston
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MANUSCRIPTS, UNPUBLISHED AND PRIVATELY PRINTED MATERIAL, MICROFILMS, ETC.
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DIANA PRESTON is an Oxford University–educated historian and the author of
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
, which won the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology;
Cleopatra and Antony
;
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
;
The Boxer Rebellion
;
A First Rate Tragedy
; and
The Road to Culloden Moor
. She is the coauthor, with her husband, Michael Preston, of
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind
and
Taj Mahal
.
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China’s War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
The Road to Culloden Moor: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the ’45 Rebellion
With Michael Preston
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
Copyright © 2012 by Diana Preston
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Preston, Diana, 1952–
The dark defile : Britain’s catastrophic invasion of Afghanistan, 1838–1842 / Diana Preston.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978 0 80277 606 8 (ebook)
1. Afghanistan—History—British Intervention, 1839–1842. 2. Afghanistan—History, Military—19th century. 3. British—Afghanistan—History—19th century. I. Title.
DS363.P74 2012
958.1'03—dc23
2011024091
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