The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire and Invasion |
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Paddy Docherty
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Pages: 288 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0571219772
Pub: Faber and Faber
Pub date: 2007-05-03
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 159499
Reader Reviews:
Wow (4/4 people found this helpful)
This book was an absolutely fascinating read - really informative, illuminating and hugely entertaining with colourful anecdotes from the author's own personal experience of the Khyber Pass. The historical analysis is written in a way which is sophisticated yet easy to assimilate. I would recommend the book as easily to those who have no particular knowledge of the region as to those with expert knowledge.
epic stuff! (5/5 people found this helpful)
This book, unlike most popular history, is compellingly readable and huge fun.
Paddy Docherty skillfully compresses huge swathes of history in a lucid and very entertaining manner. This allows the Khyber region's past to emerge clearly in context, chapter by chapter, up to the present day.
Within the broad-sweep approach, wonderful detail is also included which really brings to life the cast of characters. I particularly liked the vignette about Ashoka and his mango...!
I read it straight through in a day. More please!
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