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154 PRESS OPINIONS ON THE SECOND VOLUME OF "THE SECOND AFGHAN WAR"

—" Colonel Hanna may be congratulated on an extremely accurate, painstaking, and clear account of a very unsatisfactory war. His criticisms . . . are, we believe, generally sound."

— "No one could be more capable of writing a history of it than Colonel Hanna."

— " Few books have ever given a better description of mountain warfare and its perils, and how a rough country tends to dislocate military movements, while there are some life-like passages descriptive of the frequent raids on the British lines of communications by the wild tribesmen."

— " This volume effectively brings up a valuable military history which has already in its first half gained a high reputation among the studious soldiers best capable of weighing its merits."

— "A searching, uncompromising and illuminating piece of historical work."

— " To give a lucid account of <his tangled campaign is no easy matter; but Colonel Hanna has been successful."

—" The tale is told, both from the military and the political points of view, with a moderation, a strict impartiality^ and a scrupulous regard for accuracy which win and hold the confidence of the reader."

—" The story is clear and sufificient and no extraneous matter is included."

—" Most chapters of the narrative close with 'Observations' or criticisms, which, whether justified or not, cannot but make a soldier think out carefully the problems set before him. This is a work which could only be done by one who is himself a scientific soldier, and is well acquainted with the country about which he writes."

— " The combination of soldier and historian, still more of the soldier and liberal-minded historian, is one that is only too rare in the armals of publication."