The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire & Invasion

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Combining personal travelogue with history, Paddy Docherty chronicles the story of the Khyber Pass, the gorge separating Afghanistan from Pakistan and northern India that has been the path of invasion for generations of aspiring conquerors.
Docherty paints a fascinating historical portrait of mountain warriors, religious visionaries, artists, scientists, and figures from Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan—and examines the Pass’s modern significance as a lawless region of ...
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Overview

Combining personal travelogue with history, Paddy Docherty chronicles the story of the Khyber Pass, the gorge separating Afghanistan from Pakistan and northern India that has been the path of invasion for generations of aspiring conquerors.
Docherty paints a fascinating historical portrait of mountain warriors, religious visionaries, artists, scientists, and figures from Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan—and examines the Pass’s modern significance as a lawless region of gunsmiths, drug smugglers, Taliban fighters and Al Qaeda operatives.  Through his own travels in this frontier region (from Pakistan through the Khyber to Kabul), Paddy Docherty brings the Pass’s epic history into the 21st century.
 

 

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781402756962
  • Publisher: Union Square Press
  • Publication date: 4/1/2008
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 1,002,925
  • Product dimensions: 6.32 (w) x 9.01 (h) x 1.06 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Illustration Credits     xiv
Maps     xv
Prologue     xix
The First Persians     1
Alexander the Great     21
The Mauryan Empire     43
Greeks and Nomads     59
The Kushans     77
Sasanian Persians and White Huns     93
The First Muslims     113
Genghis Khan and Timur     141
Mughals and Sikhs     163
The British Raj     189
Pakistan     217
Epilogue     229
Bibliographic Essay     243
Index     251
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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 31, 2008

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    The Khyber Pass is a really gripping history of a fascinating part of the world and is packed with exciting stories and characters, from the ancient Persians to the warlords & terrorists in the Khyber region today. Docherty does a very good job of condensing 2500 years of history into such a readable book, and the illustrations are excellent too. I recommend this very highly!

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