"Published in the United Kingdom in 2011 by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd."--T.p. verso.

A contested history -- Dynastic struggles and popular resistance in Afghanistan: the era of the first Anglo-Afghan War, 1834-42 -- Asymmetrical war: the Afghan Civil War, 1863-6, and the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-81 -- The Pashtun rising: resistance in the Tirah Campaign, 1897-8 -- Frontier wars: the third Afghan War, 1919 and operations in Waziristan, 1936-47 -- The Soviet War: the mujahideen, ideology and guerrilla war, 1978-89 -- The Civil War, the Taliban and the insurgency, 1990-2011 249 -- Lessons learned?.