David de Mayréna, the soldier who was king

June 11, 2023

Updated at 4:07 a.m.

Reality surpasses fiction. Rudyard Kipling published his story “The Man Who Would Be King” in 1888, which would later inspire John Huston’s film. It tells the story of two English soldiers who arrive in Kafiristan in the Hindu Kush after a painful journey…

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