Proceed to Peshawar : the story of a U.S. Navy intelligence mission on the Afghan border, 1943

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Proceed to Peshawar : the story of a U.S. Navy intelligence mission on the Afghan border, 1943

Title remainder

the story of a U.S. Navy intelligence mission on the Afghan border, 1943

Statement of responsibility

George J. Hill, Captain, Medical Corps, USNR (Ret.)

Title variation

Story of a U.S. Navy intelligence mission on the Afghan border, 1943

Creator

• Hill, George J., 1932-

Subject

• HISTORY / Military / General
• HISTORY / Military / Naval
• Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) -- Description and travel
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) -- History -- 20th century
• Enders, Gordon B., (Gordon Bandy)
• Military intelligence -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States
• Zimmermann, Albert Walter
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) -- History, Military

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"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. "--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/8673

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DS392.N67

LC item number

H55 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography