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The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Author:Winston Churchill Sir Winston Churchill's first published work of non-fiction, it details an 1897 military campaign on the Northwest Frontier (an area now part of Pakistan). Churchill participated in the campaign as a second lieutenant in the cavalry; he volunteered for the posting, having become bored of playing polo in India. — His experiences in this campai... more »gn meant that, unlike most military thinkers of the time, he could better understand the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.« less