The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War [Hardcover]

Winston, Sir Churchill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1989

On general grounds I deprecate prefaces. I have always thought that if an author cannot make friends with the reader and explain his objects in two or three hundred pages he is not likely to do so in fifty lines. And yet the temptation of speaking a few words behind the scenes as it were is so strong that few writers are able to resist it. I shall not try.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Leo Cooper (October 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0850522609
• ISBN-13: 978-0850522600
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,345,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Warning!! Alan Rodgers Books/Aegyptian Press Edition has NO MAPS, December 18, 2007

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A Reader (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Story of the Malakand Field Force (Paperback)

Warning!! The Edition of this book published by Alan Rodgers Books/Aegyptian Press has NO MAPS!!! I strongly recommend that you do not buy that edition. I am sure sorry I did. I wish I could recommend an edition that I know does have maps, but from the information available on their web pages I can't tell if they do or not. I just went and took a look on the web and the original edition had 6 maps. Churchill obviously assumed in the text that maps were going to be available to refer to. It is VERY DIFFICULT to figure out what was going on during the campaign without them.

34 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A valid view, August 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (Hardcover)

This is a book which I value tremendously. Rarely are books so well written as this; and whatever Churchill wrote in 1897 in this account still holds very much true, if not more so, for the context of this narrative. Were I to write an account on this subject today, it would hardly differ from Churchill's. His opinions are still very much valid, and those who value truthful methods of analysis are well aware of this. This book must not be spurned by experts. Given the nature of the current overall situation prevailing in this region and its effect on the rest of the world, this book becomes more important than ever as a reference primer.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review Malakand WSC, October 26, 2009

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This review is from: The Story of the Malakand Field Force (Kindle Edition)

Brilliant portrayal of this ferocious area. Both then and now. Was required reading for army officers. Probably should be now.