The Spectator, June 26th, 2004
The Quaker Prince of Ghor JOSIAH THE GREAT by Ben Macintyre HarperCollins, £20, pp. 350, ISBN 0007151063
The saga of the First Afghan War, one of the greatest disasters ever met by the British army, has been told many times before, and I had vowed to throw any book that told it again away in the bin. But Ben Macintyre has found a wholly original angle on it by turning the spotlight on a mysterious American, Josiah Harlan, whose story briefly crosses other accounts of this period. In doing so, he has produced a riveting book and a valuable contribution to Great Game literature.
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