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Osprey’s book on the northwest of British India covers from the appointment of Lord Auckland as Governor-General of India, and goes to the end of British India.

In general, this is your usual good Osprey treatment of the subject, with photographs of men in the equipment of various troop types.

However, it is an early book from them, and has some deficiencies. Angus McBride’s artwork for the color plates is good, but still largely in the ‘traditional’ mode. There’s no more than vague hints at backgrounds, and mostly static figures, though the last plate shows three tribesmen charging down a slope. Outside of that, there’s also no map of the region under discussion.

It is a good informative basic history, and as ever with Osprey, provides good visual reference, but it falls short in other areas.