The Pomp of Yesterday the Defence of India and the Suez Canal 1798-1918: 1919 1991

By William G.F. Jackson

From the elimination of the French presence in Bengal and the Carnatic in 1756 to the defeat of the Turco-German Jihad by Allenby in 1918, the control of the roads to India, by land and sea, was a major preoccupation of British defence policy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185753008X
• ISBN13: 9781857530087
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 262 Pages