An English army was pushing into Central Asia by routes no European force had taken since Alexander the Great, and a young officer of the Bombay division wrote home about it. His father printed the letters, which describe the marches, the passes, the heat and short rations, and the storming of Afghan forts in the First Anglo-Afghan War.
A vivid first-hand record of the opening campaign of the First Afghan War for military historians. Download the free EPUB.