Proceed to Peshawar
The Story of a U.S. Navy Intelligence Mission on the Afghan Border, 1943
This is a story of adventure in the Hindu Kush Mountains, and of a previously untold Military and Naval Intelligence Mission along about 800 miles of the Durand Line in World War II. The American officers passed through the Tribal Areas and the princely states of the North-West Frontier Province, and into Baluchistan. It also provides an insight into the background and daily life of a Naval Intelligence Officer who was stationed in Karachi, India (now Pakistan), in World War II. He was probably the first American official to travel to all of the Provinces that now comprise the country of Pakistan, and he also traveled in India and Ceylon (now…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61251-328-7
- EAN: 9781612513287
- Produktnummer: 21842274
- Verlag: Naval Institute Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'821 KB
- Auflage: Digital Only
Über den Autor
George J. Hill graduated from the Harvard Medical School and served in the U.S. Marine Corps and the Public Health Service, retiring as a Captain in the Navy Reserve in 1992. He received the Navy and Marine Corps Parachute Badge, the Vietnam Service Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal. He lives in West Orange, NJ.
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