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Delhi: Published by the Manager of Publications, Delhi, Printed by the Manager, Government of India Press,, 1943. Illustrated with over 40 maps, plans, and plates First edition, one of 750 copies only, of this extensively illustrated history, typical of the genre in its exactness. Despite operational successes, after the 1936-7 campaign in Waziristan against Mirzali Khan, "there must still have been a sense of unease in the air. Not only was another global conflict gradually darkening the horizon but half a million armed tribesmen, still unreconciled to British rule, sat poised to interfere" (Tripodi, pp. 200-201). "The operations now to be described took place in two distinct parts, the first part comprising those which led to the pacification of the Tori Khel Area, the occupation of the Sham Plain, and the construction of roads in the Tori Khel and Sham Plain Areas, and the second including the steps taken to restore normal conditions west of the Razmak-Jandola road and to drive the Faqir of Ipi…
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