COUGHLIN Con <br/><br/>
Churchill's first war:  young Winston at war with the Afghans / 
Con Coughlin. 
 - New York:  St Martin's Press,  2014. 
 - xxi, 298 pg., 16 unnumbered pg. of plates : ills, portraits ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-282) and index. 
<br/><br/> The Story of the Malakand Field Force, published in 1898, was Churchill's first book and, a hundred years later, is required reading for military commanders on the ground, both British and American. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781250043047 (hbk.):  26.99USD 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>CHURCHILL, WINSTON,--1874-1965<br/>HISTORY -- MILITARY -- OTHER<br/>SOLDIERS-- GREAT BRITAIN-- BIOGRAPHY