William B. TrousdaleWilliam B. Trousdale is Curator Emeritus at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. His books include The Long Sword and Scabbard Slide in Asia (Smithsonian 1975), City in the Desert (coauthored, Harvard UP, 197), War in Afghanistan 1879-80 (Wayne State UP 1985) and The Gordon Creeds in Afghanistan (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia 1984). His book Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century is in press at Brill for 2021 publication Read More Read Less