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CHURCHILL'S FIRST WAR
YOUNG WINSTON AND THE FIGHT AGAINST THE TALIBAN |
| By: |
Con Coughlin |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£15.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230771521 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230771529 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
25 April, 2013 |
| Description: |
A riveting and revelatory account of Winston Churchill's first campaign - in Afghanistan in the 1890s, offering shocking parallels into today's Afghan war |
| Synopsis: |
Just over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious frontier war against Pashtun tribeman on the North West Frontier - the great-great-grandfathers of the Taliban and tribal insurgents in modern-day Afghanistan. Winston Churchill, then a young cavalry lieutenant, wrote a vivid account of what he saw during his first major campaign. The Story of the Malakand Field Force, published in 1898, was Churchill's first book and, a hundred years later, is required reading for military commanders on the ground, both British and American. In Churchill's First War, acclaimed author and foreign correspondent Con Coughlin tells the story of that campaign, a story of high adventure and imperial success, which contains many lessons and warnings for today. Combining historical narrative, interviews with contemporary key players and the journalist's eye for great colour and analysis Churchill's First War is not only a dramatic piece of military history but affords us a rare insight into both the nineteenth-century 'Great Game' and the twenty-first-century conflict that has raged longer than the Second World War and taken more lives than the Falklands. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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