PublishedBloomsbury, February 2013 |
ISBN9781408822876 |
FormatSoftcover, 608 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.3cm × 4.9cm |
In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion.
The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. This is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides and using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict.
