Название: The Anglo-Afghan Wars 1839–1919 (Essential Histories) Автор: Gregory Fremont-Barnes Издательство: Osprey Publishing ISBN: 1846034469 Год: 2009 Формат: PDF Страниц: 96 Размер: 33,6 МБ Язык: Английский
During the 19th Century Britain entered into three brutal wars with Afghanistan, each one an imperial struggle for power that saw the British forces trying, and failing, to gain control of an inhospitable and impenetrable region. The first two wars (1839 - 42, 1878 - 81) were attempts to expunge pro-Russian sympathies, and thehe third, in 1919, a result of an Afghan-declared holy war against British India. In the last of the three, over 100,000 Afghans answered the call for a holy war, generating a military force that would prove too great for the British Imperial army. Each of the three wars were plagued with military disasters, lengthy sieges and costly engagements for the British, and history has proved the Afghans a formidable foe and Afghanistan an unconquerable territory.
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The Anglo-Afghan Wars 1839–1919 (Essential Histories) 
