Context:

Referenced at the opening as 'the first account of that war in 1843' about the First Anglo-Afghan War

Context:

Mentioned as 'the very first Flashman book' - described as how some listeners may have first encountered the First Afghan War story

Context:

Willie Dalrymple's book about the First Afghan War, mentioned multiple times including that Karzai read it closely and it influenced his policy toward Americans

Context:

Described as 'a kind of the prequel to the events we're going to discuss today' about the East India Company

Context:

Described as 'a three-volume account of his travels to Bacara, which becomes a bestseller' - Burns' travel book that was translated into French

Context:

Referenced when discussing the timeline of the Tilsit meeting: 'Today we always read it as War and Peace, but it's actually three volumes before Tilsit as well'

Context:

McNaughton is described as 'translating the Arabian Nights from Arabic' while on top of an elephant entering Kabul