# Silk Road Books & Photos

## First Anglo Afghan War Auckland's folly – An expedition in Regime Change (Page 5 of 7)

#### 31 | #### Sardar ahmad Shah Jan Saddozai | #### Saddozai Kings and Vaziers of Afghanistan 1747-1842
Circa 2007 Peshawar Hardback in dust wrapper. The author's ancestor was Wazir/Prime Ministter to Shah Zaman and Shah Shuja. Shah Shuja was assassinated during the First Anglo Afghan War and is described by afghan Nationalists as the first puppet king of Afghanistan because the British brought him back to rule from exile in India during 1839. £45
#### 32 | #### Schofield, Victoria | #### Every Rock, Every Hill
The plain tale of the North West Frontier and Afghanistan. 352 pages very good in dw, ex library. An account of the British experiences on the Frontier and during the Anglo- Afghan wars. £16
#### 33 | #### Shuja, Shah | #### Wakayat Shah Shuja
Memoirs of Shah Shuja in Dari. Paperback published in Kabul Afghanistan. Shuja was the grandson of Ahmed Shah Durrani and ruled Afghanistan as King until 1809 when he met the British Mission headed by Elphinstone. £30
#### 34 | #### Singh, Ganda | #### Ahmed Shah Durrani
First Indian Edition published in Bombay 1959 Hardback. The book covers the early life of Ahmed Shah Durrani, his eight invasions of India with the conquests of Lahore, Kashmir, Punjab, Delhi Affairs, struggle with the Maharatas and the campaigns against Balkh, Bokhara and Khurasan. A sound historical book on Ahmed Shah Durrani written by an Indian Scholar who consulted original Persian manuscripts to write this book Good -very good hardback no dust wrapper. Pages 457 including bibliography Hyperlink to rest of material in Afghanistan topic file linked to this book. £400
#### 35 | #### J.H. Stocqueler | #### Memorials Of Afghanistan
469 pages Read Books Reprint 2006. £30
#### 36 | #### Tabibi Abdul H | #### Afghanistan A Nation in love with Freedom
1995 205 pages in original card covers. Special emphasis on the Saddozai Empire with a conclusion offering a proposal for the future of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. Documents, hindlucing a letter written by Ahmed Shah Durrani to the Ottoman Caliph. £30
#### 37 | #### Trousdale William | #### The Gordon Creeds in Afghanistan 1839 and 1878-79
Paperback London 1984 Publishers British Association of Cemeteries in South Asia. Pages 189. £20
#### 38 | #### Vigne GT | #### A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul and Afghanistan
Vigne visited Afghanistan in 1838. Hardback pictorial cover by Sang Meel publication Lahore. 1999 Mint. £20
#### 39 | #### Vogelsang Willem | #### The Afghans
The book discusses the Indo-Iranian invasions of the second millennium BC, the Persian Achaemenids, Alexander the Great, the Islamic Conquest, the Mongols , and the rise of the Kingdom of Afghanistan in the Eighteenth Century. The author pays special attention to recent developments including the Soviet Occupation of the country and the subsequent events that led to the dramatic crisis of late2001. The author is an academic specialising in Asia at the Leiden University and has visited Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and for archaeological digs. Fine in DW 2002 Blackwell Publishers. £18
#### 40 | #### Waller John H | #### The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War
1993, pp329 University of Texas Press. Paperback. Written by a former head of the CIA. £12
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