Lady Sale's Afghanistan by Lady Florentia Sale
The hard road back to India There are few books that can truly be said to be unique, but this is one. Afghanistan has been a battleground since man has occupied its hostile landscape and others have sought to control it as the corridor between great continents. The British-conquerors of the Indian sub-continent-have found themselves fruitlessly bleeding into its dry soil on several occasions. The first was in the mid-nineteenth century as they attempted to secure an unpopular puppet ruler on its throne. Error compounded error as Elphinstone, the British army's incompetent commander, compromised his strategic position in the capital and then, to extricate himself, instigated a forced retreat in winter as hostile tribesmen pressed in on all sides. History knows that this resulted in the annihilation of the entire army. Only a handful of people survived. One of these was Lady Sale, the formidable wife of Robert Sale whose brigade was fighting its own war locked inside Jellalabad. Incredibly Lady Sale kept a daily diary of her experience of the entire appalling catastrophe. It illuminates the events of the retreat uniquely and provides an inspiring view of a woman rising to the demands of extreme adversity that has no parallels.Florentia Sale was a heroine of the First Afghan War. Patrick Macrory was the author of The Siege of Derry and Kabul Catastrophe. Jane Robinson is author of Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers, and editor of Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers and Parrot Pie for Breakfast:
An Anthology of Women Pioneers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846777318 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846777313 |
| Title | Lady Sale's Afghanistan |
| Author | Lady Florentia Sale |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Leonaur Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-07-15 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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