Britain has long turned military defeats into narratives of national self-redemption like ?The Dunkirk Spirit? or, failing that, epics of personal courage and endurance followed by ultimate victory. ?The Dark Defile,? by Diana Preston, a British writer of popular histories, is one of the latter. It focuses on the catastrophic British retreat from Kabul in 1842, marked by a last stand against overwhelming odds.
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