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Florentia Sale

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

READ IT BEFORE YOU ARE DEPLOYED
I am surprised that I should be the first to review a book written in the 1840s that contains so much relevance for today. This is a story of one of the greatest epic expeditions ever to be completely annihilated at the hands of Afghan tribesman. The first Afghan expedition has always held a certain romance for me... it is the ultimate failure. But that romance is tempered by the fact that ...

JOURNAL OF THE DISASTERS IN AFGHANISTAN 1841-42
Lady Florentia Sale

Naval & Military Press, 2006

Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan 1841-2
Florentia Wynch, Lady Sale, Lady Florentia Sale

Naval & Military Press, 2005

A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan: A Firsthand Account by One of the Few Survivors
Florentia, Lady Sale, 2002

A remarkable diary that recounts the dramatic unfolding of the West's first intervention in Afghanistan. First published in 1843, Lady Sale's Journal describes the first moves in what was to be known as "The Great Game" - the strtegic maneuvring between Russia nd Great Britain on the Northwest Frontier of India. Opening her narrative during the British occupation of Cabul (sic), she records assassinations, tribal insurrection, the disastrous ...