The Great GameJohn Murray Press, 2006 M03 27 - 592 pages 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. |
Contents
Prologue | |
THE BEGINNINGS | |
The Yellow Peril | |
Napoleonic Nightmare | |
Rehearsal for the Great Game | |
The Barometer Falls | |
THE MIDDLE YEARS | |
The Great Game | |
Enter Bokhara Burnes | |
The Greatest Fortress in the World | |
The Mysterious Vitkevich | |
Hero of Herat | |
The Kingmakers | |
The Russian Bogy | |
All Roads Lead to India | |
The First of the Russian Players | |
A Strange Tale of Two Dogs | |
Death on the Oxus | |
The Race for Khiva | |
The Freeing of the Slaves | |
Night of the Long Knives | |