The Anti-Death League vs The Story of the Malakand Field Force: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Anti-Death League The Anti-Death League Kingsley Amis · 1803 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 304 pages · ≈ 5 h 38 m · Challenging

Amid preparations for Operation Apollo, secret agent Brian Leonard meet James Churchill who has "gone round-the-bend for a parole from the mental ward," "a widowed beauty ..., an unfocused psychiatrist, an unbelieving…

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Cover of The Story of the Malakand Field Force The Story of the Malakand Field Force Winston S. Churchill · 1898 ★★★★☆ 4.0 232 pages · ≈ 4 h 18 m · Challenging

The future prime minister served as an officer with a cavalry unit in India that saw no action, while he was there. Wanting to see some fighting, young Churchill connived to get himself temporarily attached to the…

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The Anti-Death LeagueThe Story of the Malakand Field Force
Ratings 426 368
Editions 26 86
Citations 3 —
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 570 479
Reading it now 20 101
Written reviews 55 35
Wikipedia attention 269 389
Pages 304 232

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