The Great game : on the secret service in high Asia / Peter Hopkirk

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Hopkirk, Peter [author]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 562 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9780719564475

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DDC classification:

958.03 HOP

Summary: For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia -fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia.Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Geat game' , a phase immortalized in Kipling's.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia -fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia.Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Geat game' , a phase immortalized in Kipling's.

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The Great game : on the secret service in high Asia / Peter Hopkirk