- Hardcover: 328 pages
- Publisher: The History Press LTD; New Ed edition (27 May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1862271968
- ISBN-13: 978-1862271968
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 15.7 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,154,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book, illustrated with contemporary photographs, is the first full-scale treatment of the Second Afghan War for more than three-quarters of a century. - Forty years after the disastrous First Afghan War, the British found themselves invading Afghanistan again to remove Russian influence and install a government friendly to the British Empire. - The war was to last two and a half years, cost the lives of thousands of British and Indian soldiers as well as countless thousands of Afghans, and came close to bankrupting the Indian Government. - Illustrated with contemporary photographs and based on first-hand official documents as well as unpublished private accounts, diaries and privately-printed memoirs, this is the first full-scale treatment of the war for more than three-quarters of a century. - With appendices covering uniforms, medals, casualties and the units taking part in the war, this is a book that in scope, scholarship and authority is not likely to be superseded for many years to come.
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(Location: Hove, East Sussex) is a distinguished former civil servant who has retired from the post of Deputy Under Secretary of State at the British Ministry of Defence. He has served in both the British and Indian armies and is the author of the definitive work on the swords of the British Army.
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An interesting book. It tries, but fails, to present a balanced view and winds up being another tale told very much from the British side - of which we have too many for the whole era of colonialism. As an example, the chapter on 'the opposing forces' is actually a chapter about the British armies in India, with two paragraphs about the Afghan army tacked on. I think the author genuinely intended to do better, and I can understand that Afghan records were a little hard to come by, but a missed opportunity none the less.
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