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The Finest Hotel in Kabul - Lyse Doucet

Afghanistan is often remembered as the “graveyard of empires”—a terrain that broke the ambitions of Alexander the Great, Victorian Britain, and the Soviet Union. Yet in The Finest Hotel in Kabul, BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet charts the country’s turbulent modern saga not through battlefields, but through a single, extraordinary vantage point: the Inter-Continental Hotel.

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