Review: Soldier Sahibs
User Review - Andrew - GoodreadsFascinating insight into the NW Frontier. Very relevant for contemporary events. Read full review
Review: Soldier Sahibs
User Review - Tony Mulqueen - GoodreadsAnyone with an interest in the military history of the NW Frontier Provinces knows Charles Allen as a fluent and authorative narrator. Then known as the Great Game, the endemic power struggles of the ... Read full review
Review: Soldier Sahibs
User Review - Matthew - GoodreadsThis well-written, easy-to-read book was read as a supplement for the Great Game section of the DYOD on South and Central Asia, though the events described actually fall more into the period and ... Read full review
Review: Soldier Sahibs
User Review - Ted - GoodreadsThis book is a fantastic read for anyone who is interested in this area of the world for whatever reason. In some ways it explains why the area is what it is today and gives the background that shows ... Read full review
Review: Soldier Sahibs
User Review - Jim Graham - GoodreadsQuite simply brilliant. A boy's own adventure. A time and a situation that is impossible to conceive of now. (More's the pity). I gave this five stars because Goodreads doesn't permit six. It is the most entertaining history I have read, ever. Read full review
Review: Soldier Sahibs
User Review - Homer H Blass - GoodreadsPopular readable and accurate account of the British Indian Army and their wars against Afghanistan and Russian influence from 1839 to the end of the Raj in 1948. Allen, a direct descendant of one of ... Read full review
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User Review - Joe - GoodreadsI just read this book for the second time, the last time was a few years ago before going to Afghanistan. Now, after having spent more time in Afghanistan as well as in Pakistan, I think I got a lot ... Read full review
Review: Soldier Sahibs
User Review - Dgoll - GoodreadsExcellent history, reads like a novel. Gives one a better understanding of some of what is going on in that part of the world today. Read full review
Review: Soldier Sahibs
User Review - Old-Barbarossa - GoodreadsGreat historical yarns. Public school boys let loose on the North West Frontier in the mid-1800s. If you ever read a Flashman book you will recognise these characters as the type he would have ... Read full review
