Title The great game : the struggle for empire in central Asia / Peter Hopkirk

Edition Reprint edition Published New York : Kodansha International, 1992

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Description xxiv, 565 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Contents The Beginnings. 1. The Yellow Peril. 2. Napoleonic Nightmare. 3. Rehearsal for the Great Game. 4. The Russian Bogy. 5. All Roads Lead to India. 6. The First of the Russian Players. 7. A Strange Tale of Two Dogs. 8. Death on the Oxus. 9. The Barometer Falls -- The Middle Years. 10. 'The Great Game'. 11. Enter 'Bokhara' Burnes. 12. The Greatest Fortress in the World. 13. The Mysterious Vitkevich. 14. Hero of Herat. 15. The Kingmakers. 16. The Race for Khiva. 17. The Freeing of the Slaves. 18. Night of the Long Knives. 19. Catastrophe. 20. Massacre in the Passes. 21. The Last Hours of Conolly and Stoddart. 22. Half-time -- The Climactic Years. 23. The Great Russian Advance Begins. 24. Lion of Tashkent. 25. Spies Along the Silk Road. 26. The Feel of Cold Steel Across His Throat. 27. 'A Physician from the North'. 28. Captain Burnaby's Ride to Khiva. 29. Bloodbath at the Bala Hissar. 30. The Last Stand of the Turcomans. 31. To the Brink of War. 32. The Railway Race to the East. 33. Where Three Empires Meet 34. Flashpoint in the High Pamirs. 35. The Race for Chitral. 36. The Beginning of the End. 37. End-game Analysis Asia, Central Soviet Union Great Britain Islam Imperialism History Overseas item Notes A Kodansha Globe book Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-542) and index Notes Originally published London : J. Murray, 1990. 562 p 'From the library of Professor Robin Moore' SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056709 Russia -- Foreign relations -- 1801-1917. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125752 Asia, Central -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001926 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 Asia, Central -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001930 Asia, Central http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008625 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Great Britain. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 Asia, Central http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008625 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126312 Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Asia, Central. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008625 USSR -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117063 -- Asia, Central. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008625 LC no. 92016925 ISBN 4770017030 : 1568360223

Other Titles The great game : on secret service in high Asia

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