The Story of the Malakand Field Force de Winston S. Churchill

The Story of the Malakand Field Force

Winston S. Churchill

On general grounds I deprecate prefaces. I have always thought that if an author cannot make friends with the reader, and explain his objects, in two or three hundred pages, he is not likely to do so in fifty lines. And yet the temptation of speaking a few words behind the scenes, as it were, is so strong that few writers are able to resist it. I shall not try.

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I. The Theatre of War II. The Malakand Camps III. The Outbreak IV. The Attack on the Malakand V. The Relief of Chakdara VI. The Defence of Chakdara VII. The Gate of Swat VIII. The Advance against the Mohmands IX. Reconnaissance X. The March to Nawagai XI. The Action of the Mamund Valley, 16th September XII. At Inayat Kila XIII. Nawagai XIV. Back to the Mamund Valley XV. The Work of the Calvalry XVI. Submission XVII. Military Observations XVIII. AND LAST...The Riddle of the Frontier APPENDIX

Notă biografică

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill) and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work. In 1963, he was the first of only eight people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. In addition to his careers of soldier and politician, he was a prolific writer under the pen name "Winston S. Churchill". After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895, Churchill gained permission to observe the Cuban War of Independence and sent war reports to The Daily Graphic. He continued his war journalism in British India, at the Siege of Malakand, then in the Sudan during the Mahdist War and in southern Africa during the Second Boer War.