Proceed to Peshawar: The Story of a U.S. Navy Intelligence Mission on the Afghan Border, 1943

Proceed to Peshawar: The Story of a U.S. Navy Intelligence Mission on the Afghan Border, 1943

by George J Hill
Proceed to Peshawar: The Story of a U.S. Navy Intelligence Mission on the Afghan Border, 1943

Proceed to Peshawar: The Story of a U.S. Navy Intelligence Mission on the Afghan Border, 1943

by George J Hill

eBookDigital Only (Digital Only)

$29.49  $38.95 Save 24% Current price is $29.49, Original price is $38.95. You Save 24%.

Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps.
WANT A NOOK?  Explore Now

Related collections and offers


Overview

Proceed to Peshawar is a story of adventure in the Hindu Kush Mountains and of a previously untold military and naval intelligence mission during World War II by two American officers along 800 miles of the Durand Line, the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They passed through the tribal areas and the princely states of the North-West Frontier Province, and into Baluchistan. This appears to be the first time that any American officials were permitted to travel for any distance along either side of the Durand Line. Many British political and military officers believed that India would soon be free, and that the Great Game between Russia and Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would then come to an end. Some of them thought that the United States should, and would, assume Britain’s role in Central Asia, and they wanted to introduce America to this ancient contest.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781612513287
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Publication date: 11/15/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

George J. Hill graduated from the Harvard Medical School and served in the U.S. Marine Corps and the Public Health Service, retiring as a captain in the Navy Reserve in 1992. He lives in West Orange, NJ.
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews