The Literary World.—" A work like Colonel Manna's appeals specially to the student, particularly to the political and military student."
Sheffield Daily Telegraph.— "All who take an earnest and continuous interest in British operations on the North-West Indian Frontier . . . will do well to get Colonel Hanna's book."
Western Mercury.— "This bulky volume is a, crushing and remorseless exposure of the ' Forward Policy.' Colonel Hanna . . . has, in addition to military knowledge, tireless industry and a firm grip of facts."
Public Opinion.—" We heartily recommend this very able history of events that have proved so costly to England in lives and money. The work is well written, and should be widely read."
Newcastle Leader.— " Such a task as Colonel Hanna has undertaken requires not only the faculty of the historian, but the special training of the soldier for its effective treatment; and Colonel Hanna has with this historic ability and this special training."
The Champion, Bombay.— " Colonel Hanna has already won his spurs as a writer and publicist of no mean renown, on questions relating to the Afghan and North-West I'Yontier politics, and he has well been described by one leading London journal as ' peculiarly fitted to handle the multiplicity of questions—political, social, and military — in connection with the Second Afghan War," and by another as bringing to his task ' care, clearness, completeness and conviction. We entirely concur in these views."
The World.—"The first volume ... is now published, and contains a full and interesting account of the various events which led to the genesis and growth of the Forward Policy, and so to the outbreak of war, which the next volume is to chronicle."
Liverpool Post.— " Especially valuable is Colonel Hanna's analysis of the circumstances attending the Russian Mission to Kabul, under General Stolietoff, which have been put forward by apologists of Lord Lytton and the Beaconsfield Government as an ample justification of the Afghan War."
