Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road To British Disaster in The First Afghan War
New York: Random House, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #007494
SIGNED by author to title page. First edition, second printing. Quarter purple cloth, burnt orange paper boards, gilt flower detail to front board. xxxiii, 329 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Slight fading to top and tail edges, bruise to foot of front board. Dust jacket sunned to spine, lightly bumped to edges. A sweeping saga, chronicling the brutal wars and international intrigues of the nineteenth century in India and Afghanistan - the "Great Game" that culminated in the siege of Kabul and the deaths of 16,000 British soldiers, their families and camp followers.
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