The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

Synopsis

"The Great Game was the epic stand-off between the two superpowers of the nineteenth century--Victorian Britain and Czarist Russia--for the riches of India and the East. Based on meticulous scholarship and on-the-spot research, Peter Hopkirk's immensely readable account covers the history at the core of today's geopolitics." [Amazon]

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Released

1992

Location

Asia

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