Tribes of Central Asia - From the Black Mountain to Waziristan

Informationen zum Autor Colonel Wylly, 1858-1932, was born in India and after graduating from Sandhurst went on to command the lst Battalion Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. He was a very successful military historian and author of numerous books, including regional histories, regimental histories, military campaigns, and the Great War of 1914-18. For many years he was also editor of the Journal of the Royal United Services Institution, Whitehall. Klappentext Serving in the British Army, North-West frontier region in the 1890s, Colonel Wylly found there was no reliable, up to date information on the tribes or on the terrain. His work remains valuable for descriptions of tribes and their way of life, and for the background and information on campaigns waged by the British in an attempt at subjugation.

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• Authors: Wylly, H C Wylly, H. C. Wylly
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9781906876333
• ISBN: 978-1-906876-33-3
• No. of pages: 506
• Series: Global Oriental Classic Reprin; Global Oriental Classic Reprin
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous