The Afghan Wars

First published in 1892. The book begins: "Since it was the British complications with Persia which mainly furnished what pretext there was for the invasion of Afghanistan by an Anglo-Indian army in 1839, some brief recital is necessary of the relations between Great Britain and Persia prior to that aggression..." https://cdn.libreka.de/cover/d0335f12-279f-4a57-b8f7-0bbcddfd5e48/m