Lady Sale's Afghanistan: An Indomitable Victorian Lady's Account of the Retreat from Kabul During the First Afghan War - Hardcoverby Florentia Sale (Author) The hard road back to India There are few books that can truly be said to be unique, but this is one. Afghanistan has been a battleground since man has occupied its hostile landscape and others have sought to control it as the corridor between great continents. The British conquerors of the Indian sub continent have found themselves fruitlessly bleeding into its dry soil on several occasions. The first was in the mid