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The Great Game

The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)

By Peter, Peter Hopkirk, Hopkirk

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| Paperback | 9781568360225

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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 coreContinue

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A fascinating account of the struggle between the British and Russian empires to conquer Central Asia for geopolitical and commercial reasons. The British wanted to protect India from the Russian expansion by extending their power and control over Central Asia. It’s not certain that the Russians rea ... (continue)

A fascinating account of the struggle between the British and Russian empires to conquer Central Asia for geopolitical and commercial reasons. The British wanted to protect India from the Russian expansion by extending their power and control over Central Asia. It’s not certain that the Russians really wanted to reach and conquer India (although the military wanted to), but surely they wanted to expand their territories into Asia, going from Turkey to China. The events described in this book shaped Asia, and we still see the consequences today.
This history book is so well written that is gripping as an adventure novel. Although this is not a work of fiction, some of the characters involved in the Great Game, and described in this book, had lives that would dwarf Indiana Jones’ adventures.

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