The Great Game

On Secret Service in High Asia

Autor*innen

• Peter Hopkirk
• Jan Morris

Parameter

• 576 Seiten
• 21 Lesestunden

• Geschichte
• Historisches Thema
• Politikwissenschaft
• Sachbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften

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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 apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Einband: Paperback