Lady Sale’s Afghanistan: an Indomitable Victorian Lady’s Account of the Retreat from Kabul During the First Afghan War

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The hard road back to India

There are few books that may in reality be said to be unique, but that is one. Afghanistan has been a battleground since man has occupied its hostile landscape and others have sought to regulate it as the corridor between great continents. The British-conquerors of the Indian sub-continent-have found themselves fruitlessly bleeding into its dry soil on several occasions. The first used to be in the mid-nineteenth century as they attempted to protected an unpopular puppet ruler on its throne. Error compounded error as Elphinstone, the British army’s incompetent commander, compromised his strategic position in the capital and then, to extricate himself, instigated a forced retreat in winter as hostile tribesmen pressed in on all sides. History knows that this resulted in the annihilation of all the army. Just a handful of people survived. The sort of used to be Lady Sale, the formidable wife of Robert Sale whose brigade used to be fighting its own war locked inside Jellalabad. Incredibly Lady Sale kept a day-to-day diary of her experience of all the appalling catastrophe. It illuminates the events of the retreat uniquely and provides an inspiring view of a woman rising to the demands of extreme adversity that has no parallels.

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