

The 1913 execution in Kabul of a political
prisoner strapped to a gun carriage.
(Hulton Archives/Getty Images)

A Tribal leader surrenders to a British
general in 1879 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
(Hulton Archives/Getty Images)


The Bala-e-Hisar fort at Kabul, photographed from the British Residency during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, which accomplished nothing except the defeat of the 'forward school' of British policy in India towards the Russian advance on Central Asia.
Bolan Pass, an anonymous commentary on the extinction of a British-Indian army in the futile disaster of the First Anglo-Afghan War.