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" Afghanistan has inspired the British people with a feeling of almost superstitious apprehension ... It is only with the greatest reluctance that Englishmen can be persuaded to have anything to do with so fateful a region ... In the history of most conquering... "
Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism - Pagina xii
door John K. Cooley - 2002 - 268 pagina’s
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Russia in Central Asia in 1889 & the Anglo-Russian Question

Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1889 - 546 pagina’s
...it. Small wonder that we have never been trusted by Afghan rulers, or liked by the Afghan people ! In the history of most conquering races is found some...been the Achilles' heel of Great Britain in the East. Impregnable elsewhere, she has shown herself uniformly vulnerable here. synopsis Without recapitulating...
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