The Life and Opinions of Major-General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, Volume II (Annotated)

• The 1888 text of Volume II, with its maps, a portrait and five photographs
• Foreword and afterword on the Great Game and military intelligence
• Studies of the Afghan diary, the Simla warning and the frontier today
• Select glossary and a record of MacGregor's ranks and honours
• Editorial note listing the corrections made to the 1888 text

Edited by Lady MacGregor. First published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1888.

The second volume records MacGregor's mature career as military explorer, commander and strategist, including his travels through Persia, Khorassan and Balochistan, his service in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the march to Kandahar and his work as Quartermaster-General in India.

Drawing upon journals, memoranda and military correspondence selected by his widow, the historical work reveals the growth of a professional intelligence system and the strategic concerns which culminated in his confidential study The Defence of India in 1884.

The AETERNUS edition adds new studies of the Anglo-Russian Great Game, the military geography of Afghanistan, the organisation of intelligence, the suppression and subsequent Russian translation of MacGregor's strategic study, and the independent publication of his Afghan diary by William Trousdale in 1985.

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