The Khyber Pass

Author : Paddy Docherty
Publisher : Union Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1402756968
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Khyber Pass written by Paddy Docherty and published by Union Square Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty miles long, and in places no more than sixteen meters wide, the Pass is the principal route through the great mountain borderlands between India and Central Asia -- and the path of invasion for generations of conquerors. In this ground-breaking book, Paddy Docherty charts its remarkable story -- one which involves so many of the world's great leaders and civilizations, from the influential Persian kings to Alexander the Great, from the White Huns to Genghis Khan, not to mention the Ancient Greeks and countless tribes of nomads and barbarians. He paints an illuminating picture of mountain warriors and religious visionaries, artists, poets and scientists as well as describing how around the Pass emerged three of the great world religions -- Buddhism, Sikhism and Islam. He also depicts the Pass' more modern significance as a lawless region of gunsmiths, drug markets and as a terrorist hideout. Just a few years after the Soviet Union was defeated by the Afghan Mujahideen, many thousands of soldiers from the United States, Britain and other nations are struggling to control Afghanistan. Through his own travels in this true frontier region Paddy Docherty brings this epic history into the twenty-first century.

Author : Lowell Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Khyber Pass written by Lowell Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ahmad Hasan Dani
Publisher : Sang-E-Meel Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romance of the Khyber Pass written by Ahmad Hasan Dani and published by Sang-E-Meel Publication. This book was released on 1997 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John H. Waller
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Khyber Pass written by John H. Waller and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the wars of the 19th century in India and Afghanistan resulting in the siege of Kabul and the deaths of 16,000 British soldiers and their families.

Author : Sir Robert Warburton
Publisher : London, J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 written by Sir Robert Warburton and published by London, J. Murray. This book was released on 1900 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Robert Warburton (1842-99) was a British army officer who served for 18 years as the political officer, or warden, of the Khyber Pass, the most important of the mountain passes connecting Afghanistan and present-day Pakistan. He was born in Afghanistan, the son of a British officer and his wife, a noble Afghan woman who was the niece of Amir Dost Mohammad Khan. Warburton was educated in England, commissioned an officer, and served at posts in British India and in Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia) before being appointed, in 1879, to his post in the Khyber. Home to the fiercely independent Pushtun Afridi people who resisted external control, the pass frequently had been blocked by the Afridis or by fighting among the hill tribes. Warburton is credited with keeping the frontier peaceful and the pass open, mainly though diplomacy rather than force. He drew upon his Afghan background and his fluent Persian and Pushto to gradually win the trust of tribesmen whose traditions made them deeply suspicious of outsiders. In August 1897, one month after Warburton's retirement, unrest broke out among the Afridis, who seized the pass and held it for several months. Warburton was called back into service and participated in the Tirah expedition of 1897-98, in which Anglo-Indian forces reopened the pass. Warburton was especially proud of the role played in the expedition by the Khyber Rifles, a paramilitary force recruited from Afridi tribesmen that he had raised and commanded. Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 is Warburton's account of his education and career. It touches upon virtually every individual and event that played a role in relations between Afghanistan and British India during the last quarter of the 19th century. Long in poor health, Warburton returned to England and died before the book was completed. Posthumously published, it is illustrated with a number of striking photographs and includes a detailed fold-out map of the Khyber.

Author : Sir Robert Warburton
Publisher : London, J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 written by Sir Robert Warburton and published by London, J. Murray. This book was released on 1900 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Robert Warburton (1842-99) was a British army officer who served for 18 years as the political officer, or warden, of the Khyber Pass, the most important of the mountain passes connecting Afghanistan and present-day Pakistan. He was born in Afghanistan, the son of a British officer and his wife, a noble Afghan woman who was the niece of Amir Dost Mohammad Khan. Warburton was educated in England, commissioned an officer, and served at posts in British India and in Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia) before being appointed, in 1879, to his post in the Khyber. Home to the fiercely independent Pushtun Afridi people who resisted external control, the pass frequently had been blocked by the Afridis or by fighting among the hill tribes. Warburton is credited with keeping the frontier peaceful and the pass open, mainly though diplomacy rather than force. He drew upon his Afghan background and his fluent Persian and Pushto to gradually win the trust of tribesmen whose traditions made them deeply suspicious of outsiders. In August 1897, one month after Warburton's retirement, unrest broke out among the Afridis, who seized the pass and held it for several months. Warburton was called back into service and participated in the Tirah expedition of 1897-98, in which Anglo-Indian forces reopened the pass. Warburton was especially proud of the role played in the expedition by the Khyber Rifles, a paramilitary force recruited from Afridi tribesmen that he had raised and commanded. Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 is Warburton's account of his education and career. It touches upon virtually every individual and event that played a role in relations between Afghanistan and British India during the last quarter of the 19th century. Long in poor health, Warburton returned to England and died before the book was completed. Posthumously published, it is illustrated with a number of striking photographs and includes a detailed fold-out map of the Khyber.

Author : Victor Bayley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Permanent Way Through the Khyber written by Victor Bayley and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Saida Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Khyber written by M. Saida Khan and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Hayens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clevely Sahib written by Herbert Hayens and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lowell Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Khyber Pass written by Lowell Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: