On Afghanistan's plains: the story of Britain's Afghan Wars
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| Item Description: | Ilustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Cradle of Political Insanity; 2. Victoria's First War; 3. The Present Happy Moment; 4. Vengeance is Mine, Sayeth Lord Ellenborough; 5. The Pure Instinct of Dominion; 6. Chronic Suspicion and Undignified Alarm; 7. Nothing but Misfortune and Disaster; 8. Once More unto the Breach; Notes; Bibliography; Index Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject, yet it is often forgotten that the current conflict is in fact the fourth in a string of such wars dating back as far as the early nineteenth century. Aiming to protect the British territories in India from the expanding Russian empire, the British fought a series of conflicts on Afghan territory between 1838 and 1919. The Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th and early 20th centuries were ill-conceived and led to some of the worst military disasters ever sustained by British forces in this part of the world, with poor strategy in |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0857720031 9780857720030 |
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