Robson, Brian

Crisis on the frontier: The third Afghan War and the campaign in Waziristan 1919020 / Brian Robson - Stroud, England: Sellmount, 2007. - xviii, 302 p.: ill.

PART ONE: THE THIRD AFGHAN WAR
1. An unseasy peace: Anglo-Afghan relations -- 2. The battlefield and the antagonists -- 3. The invasion of Chitral: May-July 1919 -- 4. Operations in the Khyber: 6-12 May 1919 -- 5. The occupation of Dakka: 13 May-8 August 1919 -- 6. Continuing operations through the Khyber: 17 May-8 August 1919 -- 7. Operations against the Afridis and Mohmands: 13 May-13 September 1919 -- 8. The Kurram -- 9. Operations in Baluchistan -- 11. Peacemaking -- 12. Reflections

PART TWO: WAZIRISTAN
13. The land and the people -- 14. The British and Waziristan: 1849-1919 -- 15. Events in Waziristan: April-November 1919 -- 16. Operations in the Tochi valley: November 1919 -- 17. Operations against the Mahsuds: Opening moves -- 18. Crisis and reorganisation -- 19. The second phase -- 20. The Barari Tangi -- 21. The advance to makin -- 22 The climax of the campaign -- 13. the new policy in operation: Waziristan 1920-47

9781862274037


History--Military


Middle East--History

958.104 / ROB/C