In Fiction
- At the beginning of Study in Scarlet, the first of the Sherlock Holmes books, Dr. Watson is mentioned as having been wounded in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and invalided home.
- M.M. Kaye's novel The Far Pavilions is set, in part, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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