On Afghanistan's Plains

ISBN: 9781848857179 出版年：2011 页码：295 Jules Stewart Bloomsbury Publishing

Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject, yet it is often forgotten that the current conflict is in fact the fourof suback 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-Afgh19th and early 20th centuries were ill-conceived and led worst military disasters ever sustained by British forces in thworld, with poor strategy in the First Afghan War resulting in the annihilation of 16,000 soldiers and civiliaweek. In his new book, Jules Stewart explores the potential danger of replaying Britain's military catastrophes and considelearnt from revisiting the story of these earlier Afghan wars.