Personal Records of the Kandahar Campaign by Officers engaged therein.

First Edition of an important and uncommon source for the Second Afghan War. “Major Walter [sic] Ashe has compiled a group of twenty-three letters written by several unnamed officers of the British Army during the Second Afghan War… [they] focus mainly on General Burrow's disastrous defeat at Maiwand, and the consequent relief force led by General Roberts… While unquestioning of the British presence in Afghanistan, the variable quality of British generalship does not pass unnoticed. Although written by various individuals, they form a coherent whole in theme and prose quality” (Riddick). Ashe was also author of The story of the Zulu campaign (1880) and translator of The military institutions of France (1869).

8vo. Original brown pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to spine, geometric panelling in black to the upper board, in blind to the lower. Ex-District of Columbia Masonic Library with their bookplate to the front pastedown and ink-stamp to the title page only, first gathering a little loose, marginal browning, one leaf clumsily opened, hinges repaired, the cloth a little rubbed, but overall very good.