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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463170503321

Autore

Hill George J. <1932->

Titolo

Proceed to Peshawar : the story of a U.S. Navy intelligence mission on the Afghan border, 1943 / / George J. Hill, Captain, Medical Corps, USNR (Ret.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, MD : , : Naval Institute Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61251-328-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Classificazione

HIS027100HIS027000HIS027150

Disciplina

940.54/8673

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Military intelligence - United States

Military intelligence - United States - History - 20th century

Intelligence officers - United States

Electronic books.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) History, Military

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) Description and travel

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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. "--