The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: a reader

Introduction: The Anglo-Afghan Wars in historical perspective -- Strategic interests on the road to Kabul -- A sketch of the military and political power of Russia (1817)/ Robert Wilson -- Journey to the North of India (1838)/ Arthur Conolly -- The court and camp of Runjit Sing (1840) / W. G. Osborne -- A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva, under general Perofski (1939) -- The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842: occupation, route, defeat, captivity -- Narrative of the war in Affghanistan (1840) / Henry Havelock -- To Herat and Cabul: a story of the First Afghan War (1902) / G. A. Henty -- A journal of disasters in Affghanistan (1843) / Florentia Sale -- English captives at Cabul -- The life of the amir dost mohammed khan (1846), mohan lal -- The afghan wars (1896), archibald forbes -- The Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-1880: imperial insecurities, global stakes -- Gorchakov circular (1864) -- The Russian foreign policy in Asia (1877) / Eugene Schuyler -- The Afghan War: a lecture (1878) / Handel Cossham -- Afghanistan and its peoples (1878) and Afghan women and children -- India and Afghanistan (1879) / R. D. Osborn -- From the spectator: the magnitude of the Afghan War, Abdurrahman Khan -- The disaster in Candahar, The first lesson of Candahar, The rumor from Cabula, and The death of Abdul Rahman Khan -- The great game, 1880-1919 -- Russia in Central Asia (1889) / George Nathaniel Curzon -- The Amir's homily (1891) / Rudyard Kipling -- The life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan (1900) and The Ameer's memoirs / Mohammed khan, editor, and the Spectator -- The Russians at the gates of Herat (1885) / Charles Marvin -- The campaign towards Afghanistan (1885) / Andrei Bolandin -- The story of the Malakand field force (1901) / Winston Churchill -- The Indian frontier troubles, The graphic (1897) -- The judgment of the sword (1913) / Maud Diver -- Our relations with Afghanistan? (1919) / Demetrius C. Boulger -- Third Afghan War

Introduction: The Anglo-Afghan Wars in historical perspective -- Strategic interests on the road to Kabul -- A sketch of the military and political power of Russia (1817)/ Robert Wilson -- Journey to the North of India (1838)/ Arthur Conolly -- The court and camp of Runjit Sing (1840) / W.G. Osborne -- A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva, under general Perofski (1939) -- The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842: occupation, route, defeat, captivity -- Narrative of the war in Affghanistan (1840) / Henry Havelock -- To Herat and Cabul: a story of the First Afghan War (1902) / G.A. Henty -- A journal of disasters in Affghanistan (1843) / Florentia Sale -- English captives at Cabul -- The life of the amir dost mohammed khan (1846), mohan lal -- The afghan wars (1896), archibald forbes -- The Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-1880: imperial insecurities, global stakes -- Gorchakov circular (1864) -- The Russian foreign policy in Asia (1877) / Eugene Schuyler -- The Afghan War: a lecture (1878) / Handel Cossham -- Afghanistan and its peoples (1878) and Afghan women and children -- India and Afghanistan (1879) / R.D. Osborn -- From the spectator: the magnitude of the Afghan …