Afghanistan in pictures

Oh, dear. This is blog eat blog. I'm passing on a recommendation from someone else's blog. It's good stuff though.

Alerted by Sunday Times Foreign correspondent Christina Lamb’s blog, where she wrote about a day out with her son, I followed her link to The National Army Museum in London where I found a superb digest of the history of British wars in Afghanistan, complete with then- (19^th century) - and now photographs, drawings and paintings.

The Great Game continues. Learn more at:

http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhibitions/afghanistan/index.shtml

The National Army Museum also has a superb picture library which they show case as a slideshow.

They describe the collection like this: “people, places, weapons, medals, uniforms, equipment, topography – from two world wars, Britain’s nineteenth century global empire, and four centuries of British India.”

It’s atmospheric and sometimes witty, with the slideshow format juxtaposing historical and contemporary images. Again, as in the online exhibit on Afghanistan, ‘fine art’ on show beside superb photo-journalism.

http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/pictureLibrary/

Now all I have to do is take my own advice and find time to read the whole thing through, not just look at the pictures.