Full Description
Seeking military distinction, the 22-year-old Winston S. Churchill talked his way into the Malakand Field Force as a war correspondent, reporting on the front line in a struggle against restless tribes on the Northwest Frontier. Churchill describes dramatic campaigns, his writing always rooted in the exotic and, at times, adverse environment of the area now part of Pakistan. This experience of entrenched and increasingly mechanized warfare almost certainly influenced his command during the First World War, when he was better able than most to understand the nature of military stalemate. In this, his first book, he collected his reports of the conflict, providing a fascinating look at the start of Churchill's career as both a writer and as a soldier.
Contents
1. The Theatre of War
2. The Malakand Camps
3. The Outbreak
4. The Attack on the Malakand
5. The Relief of Chakdara
6. The Defence of Chakdara
7. The Gate of Swat
8. The Advance Against the Mohmands
9. Reconnaissance
10. The March to Nawagai
11. The Action of the Mamund Valley, 16th September
12. At Inayat Kila
13. Nawagai
14. Back to the Mamund Valley
15. The Work of the Cavalry
16. Submission
17. Military Observations
18. The Riddle of the Frontier
Appendix: Extracts from Official Despatches
