The dark defile
Subtitle: Britain's catastrophic invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842
By: Diana Preston
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Walker & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780802779823
Subjects: Military History; British Intervention, 1839-1842; British; History
Description: An account of the mid-nineteenth-century war in Afghanistan documents how the British government sought to protect regional interests by attempting to install a puppet ruler only to be defeated by united Afghanistan tribes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.