"North West Frontier, British and Indian Army Campaigns" Topic
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Tango01  | 12 Mar 2018 12:01 p.m. PST |
…. on the North-west Frontier of India 1849-1908 – Captain H.L. Nevill (1912) "…The territory covered in this book is most of modern day Kashmir and the mountainous region that borders Afghanistan, an area which the British had absolutely no intention of taking over as they were quite happy sticking to the nice flat bits. Recent misfortunes in Afghanistan had reinforced their desire to leave well alone as it was clearly far more trouble than it could ever be worth. Also most of this area was nominally subject to Afghanistan anyway but even nominally is stretching the point…."
Full review here link
Amicalement
Armand
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| Mad Guru | 13 Mar 2018 5:52 p.m. PST |
Read that review on JJ's blog when he first posted it and I found it very useful. Had never heard of the book before, tracked it down, bought a copy and am very happy I did. |
| Tango01 | 14 Mar 2018 12:29 p.m. PST |
Happy for you my friend!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Lion in the Stars | 15 Mar 2018 6:46 p.m. PST |
Nice find, will have to track down a copy. |
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