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"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
- Mahatma Gandhi
(1869 - 1948)
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| | Great Game:
The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
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| | by Peter Hopkirk
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ZIN Product Number: 10455664
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 596 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc.
ISBN: 1568360223
Release Date: Jan 2, 1996
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The author discusses the relationship of Central Asia with Russia and Great Britain in the nineteenth century, and examines the activities of secretagents and explorers.
| | | | From The Publisher
In the lonely passes and blazing deserts of Central Asia, a deadly struggle took place in the last century between secret agents of the two superpowers - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia. One of the most gripping episodes in imperial history, it is known as the Great Game. Today, following the sudden collapse of Russia's mighty empire, its often violent repercussions are once again rocking the headlines, giving rise to what political analysts are already calling 'the new Great Game'. Peter Hopkirk's acclaimed, spellbinding account tells the story of this great imperial struggle for strategic and economic supremacy, fought across a cruel and desolate terrain stretching from the Caucasus to China. When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and British India lay some 2,000 miles apart. By the end, as the caravan towns of the old Silk Road fell one by one to the fast-riding Cossacks, this had shrunk to less than twenty in places. At times war seemed inevitable. Here is the real-life world of Kipling's Kim seen through the adventures of those on either side - espionage and treachery on a grand scale and in exotic settings. Based on meticulous scholarship and on-the-spot research, its heroes and villains include ambitious young officers, bloodthirsty Emirs, ruthless Russian generals, and Muslim holy warriors. Yet for all its glamour and romance, the Great Game has once again become ominously topical, as a new power struggle begins in Central Asia.
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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. Photos and maps.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
An excellent book!! Dare I say it--A Classic!
-- Alaine Panzeraxe-Tracois, an investment banker in New York, September 5, 2000
Also Recommended: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, Like Hidden Fire, Race to Lhasa all by Peter Hopkirk
An Excellant Book
-- Gaurav Sharma, April 3, 2000
A Great Book
-- Munawar Hayat, a 43 year old engineer from Iaskh., May 1, 2000
Also Recommended: The Great Game of Gilgit and Chitral
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
The epic struggle for the riches of India and the East by the two central imperial powers of the 19th century: Victorian Britain and Czarist Russia. "Describes vividly the contested lands and cities whose very names conjure up mystery, romance, and high adventure..."--NY Times Book Review
| |  | | | | Maps | | | Illustrations | | | Foreword | | | Acknowledgements | | | Prologue | 1 | | The Beginnings | 9 | | 1 | The Yellow Peril | 11 | | 2 | Napoleonic Nightmare | 24 | | 3 | Rehearsal for the Great Game | 38 | | 4 | The Russian Bogy | 57 | | 5 | All Roads Lead to India | 69 | | 6 | The First of the Russian Players | 77 | | 7 | A Strange Tale of Two Dogs | 89 | | 8 | Death on the Oxus | 99 | | 9 | The Barometer Falls | 109 | | The Middle Years | 121 | | 10 | 'The Great Game' | 123 | | 11 | Enter 'Bokhara' Burnes | 135 | | 12 | The Greatest Fortress in the World | 153 | | 13 | The Mysterious Vitkevich | 165 | | 14 | Hero of Herat | 175 | | 15 | The Kingmakers | 188 | | 16 | The Race for Khiva | 202 | | 17 | The Freeing of the Slaves | 213 | | 18 | Night of the Long Knives | 230 | | 19 | Catastrophe | 243 | | 20 | Massacre in the Passes | 257 | | 21 | The Last Hours of Conolly and Stoddart | 270 | | 22 | Half-time | 281 | | The Climactic Years | 293 | | 23 | The Great Russian Advance Begins | 295 | | 24 | Lion of Tashkent | 306 | | 25 | Spies Along the Silk Road | 321 | | 26 | The Feel of Cold Steel Across His Throat | 339 | | 27 | 'A Physician from the North' | 355 | | 28 | Captain Burnaby's Ride to Khiva | 365 | | 29 | Bloodbath at the Bala Hissar | 384 | | 30 | The Last Stand of the Turcomans | 402 | | 31 | To the Brink of War | 418 | | 32 | The Railway Race to the East | 430 | | 33 | Where Three Empires Meet | 447 | | 34 | Flashpoint in the High Pamirs | 465 | | 35 | The Race for Chitral | 483 | | 36 | The Beginning of the End | 502 | | 37 | End-game | 513 | | Bibliography | 527 | | Index | 543 |
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| | | | | | Keywords
Asia, Central, Politics and government, Relations, Soviet Union, Great Britain, History - General History, History, Asia - India & South Asia, Politics and government, Great Britain, Soviet Union, Relations, Asia, Central
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