Ancient Afghanistan: The Land of a Thousand Cities
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Afghanistan - A Tale of a Great Purple Cape
He was there for two years. We've just been there for 20. The british went there four times. The russian were there for ten years. Nobody ever comes out of afghanistan, central asia with success. It's too hard. They are rather like us. You know, if someone came to your house and wanted to move you on? Well, i could see every englishman, and certainly every australian, in my case, taking to the hills and that would be that. And england's proven that time and time again. Thankfully, we haven't had to but you put yourself in the position of an afghan across these urmillenn
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