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Rh —" But though we entirely agree with Colonel Hanna's political criticism . . . still his history is in the main a military work, and it will certainly become a text-book for the training of officers. . . . The present volume of this remarkable work is, on the whole, the most generally interesting, since it contains exact and dramatic accounts of the destruction of the Cavagnari Mission to Kabul, the siege of the cantonments of Sherpur just outside the city, the overwhelming disaster of Maiwand, and the marches between Kabul and Kandahar already referred to."

— "Colonel Hanna certainly possesses the courage of his convictions and a thorough knowledge of his subject. His ' observations ' are almost always pertinent and instructive. The historical part of the narrative is lucidly told, and perhaps nobody is better able than himself to handle the Afghan question. . . . The printing of the book is beautifully clear. The maps—there are nine of them in this volume alone—will contribute not a little to the value and importance of the work, and what also goes much in its favour is the fact that there are good indexes to each of the three volumes."

—"Colonel Hanna's history of the Afghan War is worth a whole series of books which claimed to tell the story of the more recent South African campaigns. It is lucid, informed, convincing, and plain to the ordinary reader in a sense that military books often are not. There are many plans and maps, while the clearness of the printing merits a word of appreciation."

—" Colonel Hanna— a soldier of the intellectual type— can wield his pen exceedingly well, and his history of the ' Second Afghan War '—which now reaches its completion with this third volume—will undoubtedly lake high rank in our military literature."

—"The book (writes an Indian correspondent) is as interesting to a layman as to the military expert. It is full of lessons for the statesman in England no less than for the administrator on the Indian frontier. . . . Apart from the military and political interest of the book, its human side is full of pathetic lessons. The style throughout is admirably vigorous, and the personal narrative touching."

—" Colonel Hanna has, indeed, made a notable and valuable contribution to modern Indian history in the three volumes which tell the story of the 'Second Afghan War, 1878-79-80.'"