Churchill's First War: Young Winston at War with the Afghans

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2014. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First published in Great Britain by Macmillan. Stated: First U.S. Edition: February 2014. In addition, has complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Former owner's name written on verso of front board under flap. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains two section of 4 leaves / 8 pages each of glossy black & white photos, portraits, and documents. 298 numbered pages. Dust jacket in very good condition; lower right front panel has what looks likes creases but is where the plasticsized coating on the jacket lifted; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Just over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious frontier war against Pashtun tribesmen on the North West Frontier - the great-great-grandfather of the Taliban and tribal insurgents in modern-day Afghanistan. Winston Churchill, then a young cavalry lieutenant, wrote a vivid account of what he saw during his first major campaign. ""The Story of the Malakand Field Force,"" published in 1898, was Churchill's first book and, a hundred years later, is required reading for both British and American military commanders on the ground. . . .In ""Churchill's First War,"" . . . Con Coughlin tells the story of that campaign, a story of high adventure and imperial success, which contains many lessons and warnings for today. Combing historical narrative, interviews with contemporary key players, and the journalist's eye for great color and analysis, ""Churchill's First War"" affords us a rare insight into both the nineteenth-century ""Great Game"" and twenty-first century conflict that has raged longer than World War II - as well as the twentieth-century man who reunited a war-torn world.""