The First Anglo-Afghan Wars
Subtitle: a reader
By: Antoinette Burton, editor ; with a foreword by Andrew J. Bacevich
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780822356509; 9780822356622
Subjects: Military History; Afghan Wars; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Anglo-Afghan Wars in historical perspective; title: Strategic interests on the road to Kabul; title: A sketch of the military and political power of Russia (1817)/ Robert Wilson; title: Journey to the North of India (1838)/ Arthur Conolly; title: The court and camp of Runjit Sing (1840) / W. G. Osborne; title: A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva, under general Perofski (1939); title: The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842: occupation, route, defeat, captivity; title: Narrative of the war in Affghanistan (1840) / Henry Havelock; title: To Herat and Cabul: a story of the First Afghan War (1902) / G. A. Henty; title: A journal of disasters in Affghanistan (1843) / Florentia Sale; title: English captives at Cabul; title: The life of the amir dost mohammed khan (1846), mohan lal; title: The afghan wars (1896), archibald forbes; title: The Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-1880: imperial insecurities, global stakes; title: Gorchakov circular (1864); title: The Russian foreign policy in Asia (1877) / Eugene Schuyler; title: The Afghan War: a lecture (1878) / Handel Cossham; title: Afghanistan and its peoples (1878) and Afghan women and children; title: India and Afghanistan (1879) / R. D. Osborn; title: From the spectator: the magnitude of the Afghan War, Abdurrahman Khan; title: The disaster in Candahar, The first lesson of Candahar, The rumor from Cabula, and The death of Abdul Rahman Khan; title: The great game, 1880-1919; title: Russia in Central Asia (1889) / George Nathaniel Curzon; title: The Amir's homily (1891) / Rudyard Kipling; title: The life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan (1900) and The Ameer's memoirs / Mohammed khan, editor, and the Spectator; title: The Russians at the gates of Herat (1885) / Charles Marvin; title: The campaign towards Afghanistan (1885) / Andrei Bolandin; title: The story of the Malakand field force (1901) / Winston Churchill; title: The Indian frontier troubles, The graphic (1897); title: The judgment of the sword (1913) / Maud Diver; title: Our relations with Afghanistan? (1919) / Demetrius C. Boulger; title: Third Afghan War.