The Great Game : The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Paperback)

from robvann

A Hard Book to Put Down, September 2, 2002 By John Thomson (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews The Great Game, by Peter Hopkirk, is an amazing history of British and Russian imperialism cla...

from deebee1

The original Cold War, this is a historical account of the game played Britain and Russia from the late 18th to the early 20th century, for supremacy of Central Asia. On the British side, at stake ...

from Miro

The period of Hopkirk's "Great Game" is mostly the 19th century with its imperial great power rivalry, in this case between Great Britain and Russia in what is now Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajiki...

from DinadansFriend

A Ripping Yarn! With footnotes! I recommend this book to all adult survivors of Rudyard Kipling. The real story that fictional persons like Flashman palely imitate. this is the classical clash betw...

from Widsith

I liked this a lot, although I think the relevance to events today has been overplayed a bit by some other reviewers: it's better enjoyed as a stirring history than a political primer. I knew a lit...