"Bucks for Books": Antique Afghan War Books Sponsorship Appeal
Today, as we remember the 10th anniversary of the fall of Kabul, we're announcing a donation opportunity for our members and supporters - and we need your help! A collection of rare books on 19th century Afghanistan, primarily written by British military officers, has recently become available on the antiquarian book market. The Navy Department Library is interested in acquiring these volumes, but lacks the funds to do so. The library will digitize the books in HTML (textual) format, prominently post them on the Naval History and Heritage Command's website, and house the volumes in the Rare Book Room. The library has previously posted similar items from its collection, such as "A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2" and "The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80," and their content has been used in briefings to Navy leadership. The volumes listed below cost $9,800, and two generous donors have offered $1500 in seed money to assist in the purchase of this collection. We ask that you consider a tax deductible gift to this worthy project through our online GiveDirect interface, which is linked below. Acknowledgement letters will be sent in time for your 2011 tax preparations! And please pass the word along to others, using the social media sharing buttons at the bottom of this story.
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(Left) Sir Louis Cavagnari and Afghans, 19th Century (Right) U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Damin Bertrand, on a patrol in Khan Neshin, Afghanistan, on June 6, 2011. |
LIST OF BOOKS Bellew, Henry Walter, Medical Officer to the Mission. Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, under Major (now Colonel) Lumsden; with an Account of the Country and People. London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1862. $1,750. Edwardes, Major Herbert Benjamin, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Honourable East India Company Service. A Year on the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49. London: Richard Bentley, 1851. $1,000. Ferrier, Joseph Pierre. History of the Afghans. Translated from the unpublished French manuscript by Captain William Jesse. London: J. Murray, 1858. $800. Hutchinson, Colonel Henry Doveton, Director of Military Education in India. The Campaign in Tirah, 1897-1898. London: Macmillan and Company, 1898. $400. Oliver, Edward Emmerson, M.Inst.C.E., M.R.A. Across the Border: Or, Pathân and Biloch. Illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. $400. Shadbolt, Sydney Henry, Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880: Comprising Historical and Biographical Divisions, and Containing a Rapid Sketch of the War, Maps Illustrating the Operations and the Movements of the Forces, One Hundred and Forty Permanent Photographs of Officers Who Lost Their Lives in the Campaigns and of Recipients of the Victoria Cross, with Memoirs Prepared from Materials Furnished by Their Relations and Surviving Comrades, Summaries of the Movements in the Field of the Various Regiments Which Were Engaged, and Separate Records of the Services of Every British Officer Who Was Employed in the War. Dedicated to Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Baronet, Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1882. $2,200 (two volumes). Thorburn, Septimus Smet, India Civil Service, Settlement Officer of the Bann� District. Bann�, Or Our Afghan Frontier. London: Trübner & Company, 1876. $400. Ullah, Neamé. History of the Afghans. Two volumes in one. Translated from the Persian by Bernhard Dorn, Ph.D., Professor of Oriental Literature in the Imperial Russian University of Kharkov. London, 1829-36. $1,000. Vigne, Godfrey Thomas, Esquire, Fellow of the Geological Society of London. A Personal Narrative Of A Visit To Ghuzni, Kabul, And Afghanistan, And Of A Residence At The Court Of Dost Mohamed: With Notices Of Runjit Sing, Khiva, And The Russian Expedition; With Illustrations, From Drawings Made By The Author On The Spot. London: Whittaker, 1840. $800. Wood, Captain John, Indian Navy. A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. With an Essay on the Geography of the Valley of the Oxus by Henry Yule. New edition. London: J. Murray, 1872. $550. Yate, Major Charles Edward, 29th Bombay Infantry, Companion of the Order of the Star of India. Northern Afghanistan; Or, Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1888. $500.00
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USS Houston Survivors Meet at Navy Museum
In a ceremony to be held at the National Museum of the United States Navy on 17 November, the USS Houston (CA-30) Survivors Association and Next Generations will donate a cased model table, allowing the display of Naval Sea Systems Command's model of USS Houston in the Museum. Tom Freeman, who painted a depiction of the cruiser engaged in combat fifteen minutes before she sank on 1 March 1942, will loan the original painting to the Museum for the event. Please visit the USS Houston (CA-3) Survivors Association website to learn more about their organization and this event. To learn more about USS Houston, please visit the Naval History and Heritage Command's online exhibit. For information on visiting the National Museum of the United States Navy at Washington Navy Yard, please visit their website.
To RSVP for this event, please contact Dr. Edward Furgol, 202-433-6901 or edward.furgol@navy.mil
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Latest Stories on the NHF Blog We continue to update our blog with weekly stories, book reviews, and news updates. Here's a highlight of some of the stories we've shared at www.navyhistory.org. Additionally, if you have an interesting story about naval history, a museum ship, or a naval museum, please let us know, and we'll consider it for publication on the blog! Contact David Colamaria at dcolamaria@navyhistory.org with your story idea. Early in 1974, I was serving as the NATO Patrol Hydrofoil Missile Ship (PHM) Deputy Program Manager under the late Capt. Jim Wilkins. We were making rapid progress with the Boeing Company to build the lead ship. However, SecNav Notice 5030 (of 15 February 1974) caused some deep program consternation by designating the name of the lead ship to be Delphinus (i.e., Dolphin in Greek)...
Call for Papers: Global-Regional Nexus - The Sea and the Second World War
The King's College London War Studies Group and Global War Studies are pleased to announce a conference on the impact of the sea on the conduct, experience, and legacy of the Second World War... In June 2011, the Naval Historical Foundation cut the ribbon on the brand new Covert Submarine Operations exhibit, at the Cold War Gallery, Washington Navy Yard (see photos of the ceremony, which was attended by CNO Admiral Jonathan Greenert, on our Flickr page)... On Saturday, 22 October, the Naval Order of the United States (NOUS) held its annual Dewey Luncheon in which Admiral James L. Holloway, III, USN (Ret.) - former Chief of Naval Operations, and Chairman Emeritus of the Naval Historical Foundation - was recognized as the 2011 recipient of the George Dewey Award... Screams echoed across Washington Navy Yard on Friday night, as visitors crowded on board the haunted Ghost Ship Barry, an annual Halloween tradition. An estimated 955 children and adults survived the horrors lurking below decks of this Cold War era destroyer... The big news in naval history last week was the formal transfer of the battleship Iowa (BB-61) to the Pacific Battleship Center, and her subsequent departure from the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, CA.Iowa 's transfer to a private organization closes the book on the battleship era. Nicknamed "the Big Stick," Iowa is the last remaining U.S. battleship to find a home as a museum ship... This book describes how twenty-two relatively unknown Americans initially fought beside the British by serving in the Royal Navy during the early years of World War II. During this period, the United States remained a neutral county, although Nazi Germany had already either annexed or conquered Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and France, with the subjugation of Great Britain as its next objective... We're pleased to announce that the Naval Historical Foundation is resuming day-to-day operation of the Museum Store at the National Museum of the United States Navy. Store Manager Frank Arre has been working closely with the Museum staff over the past two weeks to remodel, clean, and re-open the existing gift shop, located at the entrance to the Museum... DoD Intern Meets With Admiral HollowayKyle Nappi, an undergraduate student at the Ohio State University, recently visited with NHF Chairman Emeritus Admiral James L. Holloway III to gain insights about Public Affairs as a component of leadership...
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Naval Order - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Dinner
 This year marks 70 years since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the Second World War. Please join the companions of the National Capitol Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States on Sunday evening, 4 December for the Commandery's annual Pearl Harbor Remembrance Dinner. The event will be held at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn, starting at 5PM with a social hour, followed by the dinner at 6PM.
This year Dr. John Gordon of the Rand Corporation and adjunct professor at both Georgetown and George Mason universities will be speaking about another military disaster the Japanese inflicted on the United States, but on the other side of the Pacific - the attack on the Philippines. The loss of men and material surpassed the horrendous losses that our country suffered at Pearl Harbor.
RSVP 30 November to Captain Sinclair 703-569-5699 or egnsinclair8@gmail.com
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