The Great Game - Peter Hopkirk

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY GILES MILTON'Peter Hopkirk is truly the Laureate of the Great Game' Jan Morris'One of the paciest and most exciting works of narrative history I have ever read' William Dalrymple'There can be few more fascinating subjects, or few authors better qualified to write about it' IndependentFor 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... Zobrazit více