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The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia (US title The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia is a book by Peter Hopkirk on "the Great Game", a series of conflicts in the 1800s between the UK and Russian powers to control Central Asia.
Quest for Kim: in Search of Kipling's Great Game, 1996; a travelogue to the locations of Kipling's novel Kim; Testimonials. Patrick Leigh Fermor in The Daily Telegraph nominated The Great Game for the Book of the Year. Edward Said in Punch magazine called it a "superb account" and the FT declared it to be "immensely readable and magisterial ...
The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet.The two colonial empires used military interventions and diplomatic negotiations to acquire and redefine territories in Central and South Asia.
He died on 16 November 1988, as Ronald Sinclair at a private nursing home in Plymouth, England. An obituary appeared in The Times on 22 November, alerting Peter Hopkirk, a historian of the Great Game, who was researching Teague-Jones at the time. As a result, Hopkirk immediately wrote a second obituary for The Times revealing his true identity.
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The Great Game (Peter Hopkirk book), a 1992 history book about Central Asia; The Great Game (Gordon book), a 1999 finance book by John Steele Gordon; A Great Game, a 2013 sports history book, by Stephen Harper, about Canadian ice hockey; The Great Game, an autobiography of Leopold Trepper, a communist spy during World War II
Bibliography. Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Kodansha International, 1992, ISBN 4-7700-1703-0, p. 565 The timeline of the Great Game is available online.; Tom Bissell, Chasing the Sea, Vintage, 2004, ISBN 978-0375727542, pp 247–253
The Great Game (Hopkirk book) M. Much Sounding of Bugles This page was last edited on 8 November 2023, at 23:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...