[Read free] The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
• Peter Hopkirk •
| #43891 in Books | Kodansha International | 1992-05-15 | 1994-05-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.45 x1.57 x5.44l,1.61 | File Name: 1568360223 | 564 pages | Great product!
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| More fun than anything I've read for a while|By Biffle French|More fun than anything I've read for a while. The history of Russian expansion in Central Asia during the 19th century and the resulting conflict with Britain. If you've ever wondered how Kazakhstan became part of the Soviet Union then this book will give you the answer. Along the way you'll be introduced to some of|.com |In a phrase coined by Captain Arthur Connolly of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, a "Great Game" was played between Tsarist Russia and Victorian England for supremacy in Central Asia. At stake was the security
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Peter Hopkirk’s spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era’s legacy playing itself out today.
The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams, in the blaz...
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