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Verlag: Naval and Military Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 1843427737ISBN 13: 9781843427735
Anbieter: Naval and Military Press Ltd, Uckfield, Vereinigtes Königreich
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SB 194pp,maps , 2004 N&MP Reprint of 1924 second EditionPublished Price £14.50 An official account of the British campaign against the warlike tribes of Waziristan, on the badland borders between Afghanistan and British India in 1919-20. The book begins with an extensive backwards look to previous, 19th century, campaigns in the same mountainous region. The powerful Mahsud tribe took advantage of Britianâ s involvement in the Great War to launch incursions in the summer of 1917, but the British took firm defensive action and peace was restored. Similarly, the Waziris took advantage of unrest in Afghanistan to launch raids against British posts, to which the British responded with punitive force, including the use of aircraft to spot and bomb the hostile tribes. After 12 months of sporadic fighting, operations ceased. The account of the campaign ends with an appreciation of the lessons learned, including the use of aircraft to overawe the tribesmen. With topical resonance's to todayâ s conflicts in the same region, this is a must for all serious students of the end of the Raj.
Verlag: Naval & Military Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1843427990ISBN 13: 9781843427995
Anbieter: Naval and Military Press Ltd, Uckfield, Vereinigtes Königreich
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SB ii+174pp 23 maps (6 in colour) , 2004 N&MP Reprint of 1926 Original EditionPublished Price £18 The Third Afghan War was fought in the wake of the Great War, when Amanullah, Afghanistanâ s Amir (ruler), aided by Pashtun (Pathan) tribal allies, and emboldened by an alliance with the new Bolshevik regime in Russia, took advantage of Britainâ s post-Great War weariness and nationalist unrest in India itself, to launch two surprise strikes into the North-West frontier region of British India in May 1919. The short-lived war that followed saw Britain check the thrusts and launch a counter strike in Baluchistan which took the town of Dakka. Britain also launched air-raids on the Afghan capital, Kabul, and the city of Jalalabad. The war ended in stalemate, and Britain granted autonomy in foreign affairs to the Afghanis in the Treaty of Rawalpindi. In the fighting, British and Indian Army troops lost nearly 2,000 men, many of them to cholera, while Afghani losses were estimated at 3,000. This official history gives a detailed account of the military action, the lead-up to, causes and course of the war and its lessons. It is illustrated by particularly fine and detailed colour maps and has an appendix of British Army units invloved in the war.
Verlag: Naval & Military Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 1847343880ISBN 13: 9781847343888
Anbieter: Naval and Military Press Ltd, Uckfield, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch
HB 194pp,maps , 2004 N&MP Reprint of 1924 second Edition An official account of the British campaign against the warlike tribes of Waziristan, on the badland borders between Afghanistan and British India in 1919-20. The book begins with an extensive backwards look to previous, 19th century, campaigns in the same mountainous region. The powerful Mahsud tribe took advantage of Britianâ s involvement in the Great War to launch incursions in the summer of 1917, but the British took firm defensive action and peace was restored. Similarly, the Waziris took advantage of unrest in Afghanistan to launch raids against British posts, to which the British responded with punitive force, including the use of aircraft to spot and bomb the hostile tribes. After 12 months of sporadic fighting, operations ceased. The account of the campaign ends with an appreciation of the lessons learned, including the use of aircraft to overawe the tribesmen. The text is accompanied by 21 photos, six maps, eight panoramas, photographs., and a glossary of common Waziri words. With topical resonances to todayâ s conflicts in the same region, this is a must for all serious students of the end of the Raj.
Verlag: Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing , India 1921, 1921
Anbieter: Horsham Rare Books, Horsham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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First Edition: Confidential Serial No 1656: Original green cloth boards with light brown leather spine and corners, banded spine, titles in gilt against maroon background, riubbed and chipped to extremities, generally firm and very good, uncut page edges, plain endpapers, hinges strengthened with black cloth tape and stitching, printed stamp to front endpaper Adjutants Office 10 Mar 1922, hand written inscription in Red 'Mess 48th Pioneers. ' Pagination x, 187 pages, map pocket to the rear, substantially illustrated with 31 plates, 8 panoramas and maps. A fold-out map 'sketch Camp Wana' is adjacent to page 23, there should be six other maps these are present with the exception of No.4 'General Map of Waziristan' which should be in the pocket at the back. The two other maps that are intended to be in the pocket are present. Size 10.00 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches approx. A heavy book to post. Many students and military connoisseurs will find it fascinating to look back at this conflict, its sources and consequences.