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My God – Maiwand! Operations of the South Afghanistan Field Force, 1878-1800

Author(s):

Maxwell, Leigh

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Yes

Dust Jacket Condition:

Good

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

1st Edition

Impression:

1st Impression

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Leo Cooper

Publication Year:

1979

Publication Place:

London, UK

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

036146

Catalogue(s):

History – Asia and Australasia

£17.40

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First edition, first printing. 278pp, with two maps and maps on endpapers. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, a little soft. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, a little bumped and toned on edges, shelf worn.

Maiwand was probably the most crushing defeat that the British Army suffered in India. This a thorough and well-balanced study of the military and political background to the campaign and the events leading up to the battle, giving a vivid description of life on the North West Frontier in the late 19th Century and a dramatic account of the battle of Maiwand.

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