The Hero of Herat

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Excerpt from The Hero of Herat: A Frontier Biography in Romantic Form In these days of hurried reading and writing the preface proper has almost died the death. But in giving an artistic form to the life study of an actual man it becomes needful to forestall the natural imputation that such a form may have been used as a cloak for inaccuracy, or as a means of "improving" upon life by a judicious seasoning of fact with fiction. For this reason I would have it clearly understood that no pains have been spared to make this, in every sense, a true record of the man and of the stirring events in which he took part. Even in respect of conversations, which must of necessity be clothed with words of my own, I have introduced very few - save among minor native characters - of which the gist is not given either in personal accounts or in Pottinger's long and detailed letters to Government from Herat. Above all, in touching upon the many delicate and difficult points in that chapter of blunders and disasters, the first Afghan War, I have done my utmost to see clearly and present fairly a very complex subject, and have set down nothing - whether it were fact or speech of those concerned - that I have not verified more than once in the many personal and historical accounts I have studied during the last two years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.