This is a truly timeless volume of lectures that every chap should listen to and study well prior to popping the 'question'. For if he chooses wrong ... a Mrs. Caudle he will get.

While listening to this volume I had to keep reminding myself that it was written over a hundred and fifty years ago. It seems that the problems that the British encountered in dealing with the situation on the ground in Afghanistan then are very similar if not the same as the NATO forces find them selfs faced with today. Even some of the players are the same, so much so that what continually comes to mind while listening to it is the old saying 'those who do not study history are bound to repeat it'