num_pages: 248
description: On general grounds I deprecate prefaces. I have always thought that if an author cannot make friends with the reader, and explain his objects, in two or three hundred pages, he is not likely to do so in fifty lines. And yet the temptation of speaking a few words behind the scenes, as it were, is so strong that few writers are able to resist it. I shall not try.
language: English
title: The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
titlecomplete: The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
genres: Biography, War, Nonfiction, Military History, 19th Century, Military Fiction, History
ratings_count: 316
publisher: BiblioBazaar