Third Afghan War (1 results)

First edition. "This was a war of Afghan aggression; the British invasion followed a series of Afghan incursions on to British territory, and the subsequent British counter-invasion was limited to an advance of some thirteen miles. For the British it was a wholly unexpected war" (Robson, p. 11). British air power was at the heart of the conflict, although the planes used are described here as "obsolete and worn out. Their climbing power was low, and this led to their being shot at from the hill tops as they passed along the valleys. [Yet] their moral effect was undoubtedly great" (p. 133). The RAF bombed Kabul and Jalalabad, operating out of modern-day Pakistan and traversing high mountain ranges. Wilber, Annotated Bibliography of Afghanistan, 636. Brian Robson, Crisis on the Frontier: The Third Afghan War and the Campaign in Waziristan 1919-1920, 2004. Octavo. With 23 maps (all but 1 folding), tables in text. Original printed boards, yellow cloth backstrip. Bookplate of one David Powell. Staining and skinning to boards, black ink marks on bottom edge, a few short stub tears, pp. 22-3 with newspaper tan burn, spotting internally: very good.