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Cover artist: George Gross
Blurb: “The Bloody Path of Empire
Here is one of history's most violent chronicles --bloody, tempestuous struggle of Victoria's Lancer against Pathan tribesmen on the sun-baked flats of India's fabled Khyber Pass.
Fr the Queen's battle-hard troops, it should have been one more relentless step in the march of Empire ...but against them in the field, brilliantly led, armed with smuggled rifles, were Pathan and Afridi tribesmen, men who fought with the fanatic courage of the centuries.
And in the barracks, outside Peshawar, was a half-caste wanton, a spy who fought as she could ...with the subtle but potent weapons of her sex.”