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Joshua Duke
Recollections of the Kabul Campaign, 1879 & 1880
Beyond the North-West Frontier of British India lay Afghanistan: mountain kingdom, strategic barrier and one of the great contested spaces of the nineteenth-century struggle later remembered as the Great Game. Into that country went the Kabul Field Force under Sir Frederick Roberts. Joshua Duke went with it.
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“The book is thoroughly readable throughout. The author seems a careful observer, and has the gift of describing what he sees.” (The Spectator, 25 August 1883.) A medical officer of the Bengal service, Duke witnessed a campaign fought across mountain passes, fortified heights and hostile valleys, through the occupation of Kabul, the defence of Sherpur and the final march southward towards Kandahar. Yet Duke was a surgeon before he was a chronicler. He knew that every advance left wounded men behind it, and that military glory acquires its meaning only when the cost is remembered beside the achievement.
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