Lady Sale's Afghanistan: an Indomitable Victorian Lady's Account of the Retreat from Kabul During the First Afghan War

by Florentia Sale and Lady Florentia Sale

Book Overview

The hard road back to India

There are few books that can truly be said to be unique, but this is one. Afghanistan has been a battleground since man has occupied its hostile landscape and others have sought to control it as the corridor between great continents. The British-conquerors of the Indian sub-continent-have found themselves fruitlessly bleeding into its dry soil on several occasions. The first was in the mid-nineteenth century as they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846777313
• ISBN13: 9781846777318
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"