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Default 07-10-2004, 11:09 PM

[quote:c073b]The Lions Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan (Jon Lee Anderson , Thomas Dworzak)
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Does that include the First Afghan War when 16,000 Brits marched into Afghanistan & only one came back?
  
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Default 07-10-2004, 11:39 PM

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":73763][quote:73763]The Lions Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan (Jon Lee Anderson , Thomas Dworzak)
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Does that include the First Afghan War when 16,000 Brits marched into Afghanistan & only one came back?[/quote:73763]
No, the Lion reffered to is Ahmed Shah Massoud aka The Lion of the Panjshir,
the northern alliance leader assasinated 9/9/01.

...for a good account of that series of massacres in the First Afghan War,
I recommend "The Great Game" by Peter Hopkirk...ripping yarn par exellence. beer:
  
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Default Re: Books - 07-11-2004, 01:03 AM

[quote="Unknown_Sniper":874ca]how was that. I read one of her pieces in philosophy class and, It was interesting although not the most interesting piece Ive read.[/quote:874ca]

Her philosophy makes sense and would make human life an interesting
thing indeed but I'm afraid the average person doesn't live up to Rand's
standards: I can't see how we could make it work. Still, a very cerebral
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