Literary World.—" Colonel Hanna writes clearly and effectively, and, more especially in the descriptive parts of his narrative, we are impressed by the fact that he writes with sufficiency and knowledge."
The Speaker.—"For soldiers the volume is full of instruction. Besides containing a clear account of each action and expedition, to most of the descriptive chapters is appended a series of observations, each of which is a carefully considered criticism on the events discussed in the preceding pages,"
The Saturday Review.—" Military students will thank Colonel Manna most for his analyses, and will enjoy his sound and judicial weighing and comparison of means to an end. . . . Colonel Hanna has written a very able book and has the courage of his convictions, a welcome trait in these days when robust opinions are largely out of fashion.'
PRESS OPINIONS ON THE THIRD VOLUME
OF "THE SECOND AFGHAN WAR"
Pall Mall Gazette.—" That the author, an actual participator in the long-protracted struggle of thirty and more years ago, has been pared to complete the work to which he has devoted his great abilities and his ' infinite capacity for taking pains,' is an event upon which Colonel Hanna himself, but also his countrymen in general, must be heartily congratulated. ... In any case, the volume itself requires to lie read, word for word, in order to be properly appreciated. It will, moreover, fully repay the most careful study. "
Manchester Guardian.—" Colonel Hanna, the ablest and the soundest of military writers on the Indian Frontier, has now . . . completed his work on the 'Second Afghan War.' For its political wisdom and the sureness of its technical judgments the book will take a high place in English military literature, and the last volume is the most interesting and absorbing of the three. . . . Few passages in our military history are so full of instruction and varied interest as the events between the first occupation of Kabul and the evacuation of Kandahar. There are several fine victories, some lucky ones, and the one serious defeat of Maiwand, a battle often described, but never so well as by Colonel Hanna now. . . . But Colonel Hanna's work is not merely a piece of military history. It has, as good military history should have
