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Episode #34: Return to the Graveyard of Empires

116 min • 5 september 2022

In 1878, after 36 years of peace between their countries, the British Empire invaded Afghanistan once again. Some people never learn. The Second Anglo-Afghan War would shake the Empire...and the Afghans...to their foundations.

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