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Huns and piles of skulls ; HISTORY ++ The Khyber Pass: A history of Empire and invasion By Paddy Docherty FABER [pound]17.99
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The Khyber Pass is a road 33 miles long and just 50 feet wide at
its narrowest point. It has been used as a hypodermic syringe for
injecting armies and ideologies into the Indian sub-continent and
then withdrawing loot ever since Alexander the Great marched through
in the 4th century BC. It is also perfect bandit country, where a
handful of men in the heights with rifles can hold off a battalion.
The locals have long seen it as natural resource; a bottleneck that
facilitates extortion from tr...
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