Henry Bathurst. The Second Afghan War 1878-79-80. Its Causes, its Conduct and its Consequences.

by HANNA

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Against a Repetition of such another suicidal War HANNA, Henry Bathurst. The Second Afghan War 1878-79-80. Its Causes, its Conduct and its Consequences. London: Archibald Constable Co. 1899, 1904, 1910. Three volumes, 8vo. Modern library buckram, gilt-stamped lettering-pieces; spines ruled in gilt; pp. x, [2], 386; vii, 372; vii, 583, 14 folding maps; volume three internally with lightly toned edges, short marginal tear to title-page, this re-inserted during re-binding; a very good, complete set with important presentation incriptions. First edition, presentation copy, extensively inscribed by the author to the Royal United Services Institution for distribution in 1912. Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) started his military career in India in 1857 and retired in 1889 devoting himself to collecting Indian paintings and writing on the Great Game and his military experience. He describes in detail the disastrous developments and decisions taken during the Afghan War, harshly criticizing the British Imperial and expansionist policy of the Great Game. His detailed and fluently written blow-by-blow account is "exhaustive and elaborately documented" (Wilber). Hanna (1839-1914), colonel in the Punjab Frontier Force, was outspoken in his criticism of British forward policy in India. In the preface he writes that when working on this impressive book together with his wife, that both "had the conviction forced upon us that the war of 1878 had sprung out of no change of attitude o

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