In Fiction
- Wallace Breem, The Leopard and the Cliff. St Martins Press, 1978; new edition 2010 under the Faber Finds imprint. Breem's novel was largely based on actual events and inspired by the retreat led by Major (later Colonel) Guy Hamilton Russell, commander of the South Waziristan Scouts at Wana. When the Third Anglo-Afghan War broke out the Scouts mutinied, and between 26 and 30 May 1919, Russell and 300 loyal men fought their way to safety from Wana to Fort Sandeman.
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“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
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