On Afghanistan's plains : the story of Britain's Afghan Wars / Jules Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Jules, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afghan Wars.

Afghanistan--Military relations--Great Britain.

Afghanistan.

Great Britain--History, Military.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Military relations--Afghanistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I. B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"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 the First Afghan War resulting in the annihilation of 16,000 soldiers and civilians in a single week. In his new book, Jules Stewart explores the potential danger of replaying Britain's military catastrophes and considers what can be learnt from revisiting the story of these earlier Afghan wars."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Contents:

Cradle of political insanity

Victoria's first war

The present happy moment

Vengeance is mine, sayeth Lord Ellenborough

The pure instinct of dominion

Chronic suspicion and undignified alarm

Nothing but misfortune and disaster

Once more unto the breach.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.

ISBN:

9786613292209

9780755625703

0755625706

9780857730275

0857730274

9781283292207

1283292203

9780857720030

0857720031

OCLC:

756484710