HOPKIIRK, Peter:

THE GREAT GAME. On Secret Service In High Asia.

London, The Folio Society, 2010. 8vo. pp.xxvi + 510 with colour and black & white illustrations and plates. maps and endpaper maps. Original decorated pictorial cloth hardcover in slipcase. A fine copy. Item #193116

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 immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India.

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