The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia - Brossura

Hopkirk, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192827995 ISBN 13: 9780192827999

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1991

Riassunto

The "Great Game" was an imperial, political, diplomatic, and military enterprise in which intrepid individuals played for high stakes in a struggle that stretched from the Causasus in the West to Chinese Turkestan and Tibet in the East. The prize was British India. When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and India lay some 2000 miles apart; by the end, the gap had reduced in some places to just 20 miles. Officers on either side, disguised as holy men and horse traders, or advancing in full uniform, delighted in the play as they sought to learn enemy positions, befriend powerful khans, or discover vital secrets. This book should appeal to those interested in espionage and diplomacy, the history of "High Asia" in Victorian period and superpower relations.

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The Great Game On Secret Service in High Asia

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• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0192827995
• ISBN 13: 9780192827999
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576