History of the war in Afghanistan : (Record no. 41608)

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Transcribing agency ACKU
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number DS363.
Item number K39 1851
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Personal name Kaye, John William, Sir,
Dates associated with a name 1814-1876.
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Title History of the war in Afghanistan :
Remainder of title from the unpublished letters and journals of political and military officers employed in Afghanistan throughout the entire period of British connexion with that country /
Statement of responsibility, etc by John William Kaye.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc R. Bentley,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1851.
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Extent 2 v., various pages ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “The First Anglo-Afghan War began in early 1839 when the British undertook an invasion of Afghanistan from India with the aim of overthrowing the Afghan ruler, Amir Dost Mohammad Khan, and replacing him with the supposedly pro-British former ruler, Shah Shujaʻ. The British were at first successful. They installed Shah Shujaʻ as ruler in Jalalabad and forced Dost Mohammad to flee the country. But in 1841 Dost Mohammad returned to Afghanistan to lead an uprising against the invaders and Shah Shujaʻ. In one of the most disastrous defeats in British military history, in January 1842 an Anglo-Indian force of 4,500 men and thousands of followers was routed by Afghan tribesmen. The British then sent a larger force from India to exact retribution and to recover hostages, before finally withdrawing in October 1842. History of the War in Afghanistan is a two-volume study of the war, based on unpublished letters and journals by British political and military officers who served in the conflict. The author, Sir John William Kaye (1814–76), was a onetime officer in the army of the East India Company who resigned in 1841 to devote himself full time to the writing of military history. The book begins with a detailed analysis of the events of 1800‒1837 that led up to the war and of the “Great Game of Central Asia”—the rivalry between Russia and Britain for influence in the region that spurred British intervention in Afghanistan. This is followed by detailed accounts of the major battles and military campaigns. Kaye joins other authors in concluding that the war was a disaster for Britain: “No failure so total and overwhelming as this is recorded in the page of history. No lesson so grand and impressive is to be found in all the annals of the world.” Kaye also wrote a novel based on the war, Long Engagements: a Tale of the Affghan Rebellion (1846), and several other major historical works, including The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm (1856) and the three-volume The History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857–8, published in 1864–76”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Linkage Includes bibliographical references.
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Afghan Wars.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Afghanistan – History.
Geographic name Afghanistan – Kings and rulers – Biography.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_k39_1851_v1">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_k39_1851_v1</a>
-- <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_k39_1851_v2">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_k39_1851_v2</a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Monograph
Call number prefix azu_acku_ds363_k39_1851
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Copy number Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 23/01/2018   DS363.K39 1851 3ACKU000505593 23/01/2018 2 23/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.
    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 23/01/2018     3ACKU000505601 23/01/2018   23/01/2018 Monograph