A concise outline of Britain's first conflict in Afghanistan
Whereas the history of British invasion, occupation, adventure and
misadventure in Afghanistan in the nineteenth century is well known
to military historians, there can be little doubt that the
deployment of British soldiers into that daunting and perilous
country in recent times has once again brought its affairs into
sharp focus. Most will understand the perennial problems of
operating in difficult terrain occupied by a fierce independent
people where occupation is often confined to the ground upon which
the army stands. In this little or nothing has changed for any
foreign army that ventures beyond the Khyber Pass. Consideration of
the domination of Afghanistan became inevitable as the British
Empire inexorably expanded to the entire Indian sub-continent. The
first occasion the British seriously engaged the Afghans by
marching into their country was in 1839. Very few survivors of the
force that occupied Kabul marched back into India again and the
'peace' in 1842 was inconclusive, as history has shown. Since that
time this problematic region has been an a feature of the lives of
British soldiers through several wars and troubles. This book, a
short sketch of the First Afghan War delivered in the most direct
terms for those who seek an understanding of how it all began,
underlines the uncomfortable parallels between that inhospitable
region in the early nineteenth century and almost two centuries
later. Available in softcover and back with dust jacket.
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