Retreat from Kabul: The Catastrophic British Defeat in Afghanistan, 1842
"Compulsive reading." --The New York Times "Retells the story of conquest, complacency and disaster with verve and veracity."--The New Yorker "All the excitement and contention of one of those Errol Flynn pictures about the Khyber Pass and the wild Northwest Frontier: officers disguised as natives, wild cavalry charges, massacres, the courageous young captains and the hidebound old generals."--Los Angeles Times "The excitement never flags." --The Times, London --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.