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The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
The Great Game On Secret Service in High Asia
Author: Peter Hopkirk
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 Great Game', a phrase immortalized in Kipling's Kim. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles ap...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780719564475
ISBN-10: 0719564476
Publication Date: 3/27/2006
Pages: 592
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Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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