Il Grande Gioco by Peter Hopkirk

Il Grande Gioco

Peter Hopkirk with Giorgio Petrini

624 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous slow-paced
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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 im...

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