In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks & plumed shakos, nearly 20, 000 British & East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes & re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad & the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat & utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides & using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. Prize-winning & bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful & important parable of colonial ambition & cultural collision, folly & hubris, for our times. ...

Twenty-five years ago the Kingdom of Valdonia was under siege by an army of darkness. The magical forces of good only had one hope
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While eking out a precarious livelihood rearing pigs, ex-bank robber Randy Cole has been asked to help a homesteader who is being threatened with eviction. The aging gunfighter is loath once again to take up arms until he learns that the victim is an old side-kick. ...

Last year, Cullen Bunn presented Night of the Living Deadpool, the hit tale of the Merc with the Mouth trapped in the zombie apocalypse.

In the end, he found a cure of sorts to this horrible outbreak
- any zombie that ate Deadpool transformed... into another Deadpool.

And they lived happily ever after? Not so fast, as Cullen Bunn returns, joined by the amazing artwork of Nik Virella, to reveal that wandering hordes of Deadpools might just be worse than flesh-hungry walking corpses.

Collects: Return of the Living Deadpool 1-4

Please note
- this book contains content that is unsuitable for children.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780785192572
• Publisher: Marvel
• Format: Paperback
• Dimensions: 26 x 17 x 1cm















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After serving fifteen years for his father's murder, a crime he didn't commit, Glenn Price is looking forward to his first day of freedom. But his enjoyment is short-lived when bounty hunter Randall Nash captures him the moment he steps out of jail. Randall drags Glenn back to Black Rock, whose townsfolk nearly lynched him before. ...

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A year ago, David Eliot would have been happy to escape from his weird school & its ghoulish teachers. Now he's fighting for it's survival. Someone is trying to get their hands on the Unholy Grail, the source of all power, & unless David can stop them, Groosham Grange will be history. ...

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Includes:: introductory text, track plans & other information.

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In 1950s Wales, life is changing rapidly, even in the idyllic valley at Lleifior. The co-operative venture at Lleifior farm, set up so optimistically by the idealistic Harri Vauhan, is put under presssure, as are family life & the social fabric of Wales itself. ...