Afghan Wars and the North-West Frontier, 1839-1947 - Michael Barthorp - Softcover wwi28 spearheading a charge to rejoin

spearheading a charge to rejoin Napoleon

brilliantly combining his skills as a historian with his enthusiasm for war-games

some of the problems it faced

Centuries later

Players roll dice for initiative every turn

Afghan Wars and the North-West Frontier, 1839-1947 - Michael Barthorp - Softcover wwi28 spearheading a charge to rejoinFrom the 1830s to Indian independence in 1947, British soldiers fought constant wars with the most implacable guerrilla fighters in history. The Afghan mountain tribes were fiercely independent. For generations they had plundered the north Indian plain until the British took charge and alternated between paying them subsidies (bribes to cease their raiding) and launching punitive military expeditions to teach them manners. It was a strange war fought