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Official History of Operations on the N. W. Frontier of India 1936-37. First edition, one of 750 copies only, of this extensively illustrated history, typical of the genre in its exactness. Despite operational successes, after the 1936-7 campaign in Waziristan against Mirzali Khan, "there must still have been a sense of unease in the air. Not only was another global conflict gradually darkening the horizon but half a million armed tribesmen, still unreconciled to British rule, sat poised to interfere" (Tripodi, pp. 200-201)."The operations now to be described took place in two distinct parts, the first part comprising those which led to the pacification of the Tori Khel Area, the occupation of the Sham Plain, and the construction of roads in the Tori Khel and Sham Plain Areas, and the second including the steps taken to restore normal conditions west of the Razmak-Jandola road and to drive the Faqir of Ipi from the country" (p. 1). The campaign - the scale of which is conveyed in the orders of battle, which runs to nine pages - was launched shortly after General Sir John Coleridge's appointment as GOC Northern Command, India. Coleridge retired in 1940, having been commended in the despatches of General Sir Robert Cassels, Commander-in-Chief, India, and elevated to the Order of the Bath.Copies are recorded in five institutions: British Library, National Army Museum, Imperial War Museum, University of Oxford, and Garrison Public Library, Multan.

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