Author: William HoughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghan Wars
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus
Author: William HoughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghan Wars
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
A Narrative of the march and operations of the Army of the Indus, in the Expedition to Affghanistan in the years 1838 - 39
Author: Will HoughA Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus, in the Expedition to Affghanistan in the Years 1838-1839
Author: William HoughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghan Wars
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus, in the Expedition to Afghanistan in the Years 1838-1839
Author: William HoughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghan Wars
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century
Author: William B. TrousdalePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004445226
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This comprehensive history of Kandahar uses unpublished and fugitive sources to provide a detailed picture of the geographical layout and political, social, ethnic, religious, and economic life in Afghanistan’s second largest city throughout the nineteenth century.
The Afghan Wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80
Author: Archibald ForbesPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2
Author: Lady Florentina Wynch SalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghan Wars
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Return of a King
Author: William DalrymplePublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307958299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the bare outline of this infamous battle, and with penetrating, balanced insight illuminates the uncanny similarities between the West’s first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today. He delineates the straightforward facts: Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers; the same cities garrisoned by the British are today garrisoned by foreign troops, attacked from the same rings of hills and high passes from which the British faced attack. Dalryrmple also makes clear the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, the stranglehold they have on the politics of the nation and the ways in which they ensnared both the British in the nineteenth century and NATO forces in the twenty-first. Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality.
Understanding War in Afghanistan
Author: Joseph J. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780160888311
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Dark Defile
Author: Diana PrestonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An account of the mid-19th-century war in Afghanistan documents how the British government sought to protect regional interests by attempting to install a puppet ruler only to be defeated by united Afghanistan tribes, in a volume that profiles key contributors and discusses how the war set the stage for subsequent hostilities.