Military Review English Edition January-February 2015 | Page 130

one-month mission to report on conditions along
the border between Afghanistan and that part of
British India that would become the state of Pakistan.
Traveling by jeep with two other officers, one British
and one American, Zimmermann observed life and
conditions in one of the world’s most remote and,
for Americans at the time, least known regions. That
the mission is the subject of a book owes much to
two fac F