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Hill, George J.

Proceed to Peshawar : the story of a U.S. Navy intelligence mission on the Afghan border, 1943 / George J. Hill, Captain, Medical Corps, USNR (Ret.).

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Summary: “Proceed to Peshawar is a story of adventure in the Hindu Kush Mountains and of a previously untold military and naval intelligence mission during World War II by two American officers along 800 miles of the Durand Line, the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They passed through the tribal areas and the princely states of the North-West Frontier Province, and into Baluchistan. This appears to be the first time that any American officials were permitted to travel for any distance along either side of the Durand Line. Many British political and military officers believed that India would soon be free, and that the Great Game between Russia and Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would then come to an end. Some of them thought that the United States should, and would, assume Britain’s role in Central Asia, and they wanted to introduce America to this ancient contest. “— Provided by publisher.

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ISBN 978-1-61251-328-7 (epub) 1. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan)—History, Military. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Military intelligence—United States. 3. Enders, Gordon B. (Gordon Bandy) 4. Zimmermann, Albert Walter. 5. Military intelligence— United States—History—20th century. 6. Intelligence officers—United States— Biography. 7. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan)—Description and travel. 8. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan)—History—20th century. I. Title. II. Title: Story of a U.S. Navy intelligence mission on the Afghan border, 1943.

DS392.N67

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2013037129

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Front cover: Photograph of two American military officers in a U.S. Army jeep, crossing the Lowari Pass into Chitral, North-West Frontier Province of India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan), on 18 November 1943. Lieutenant Albert W. Zimmermann, USNR, at right, looking at the camera; Major Gordon B. Enders, USAR, driving, mostly hidden by an officer of the Chitrali Scouts. The Hindu Kush Range is in the background. The photograph was taken by Major Sir Benjamin Bromhead, OBE. This was the first motor vehicle crossing of the Lowari Pass.