An edition of The Great Game: the struggle for empire in central Asia (1990)

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An edition of The Great Game: the struggle for empire in central Asia (1990)

The great game

the struggle for empire in central Asia

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The Great Game, a deadly struggle in the last century between secret agents of the two superpowers--Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia--has once again become ominously topical, as a new power struggle begins in Central Asia.

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Publisher
Kodansha International
Language
English
Pages
565

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Subjects

Politics and government, Relations, Intelligence service, Foreign relations, History, Asia, central, history, Asia, central, politics and government, International relations, Machtkampf, Geheimdienst, Eastern question, Imperialismus, Eastern question (Central Asia), Afghan Wars

Places

Central Asia, Great Britain, Soviet Union

Times

19th century

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The Great Game
July 12, 2001, Oxford University Press
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The great game: the struggle for empire in central Asia
1994, Kodansha International
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The great game: the struggle for empire in central Asia
1992, Kodansha International
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-542) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.958
Library of Congress
DS329.4 .H67 1992

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 565 p. :
Number of pages
565

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1714650M
ISBN 10
4770017030
LCCN
92016925
OCLC/WorldCat
25873772
Library Thing
76989
Goodreads
1867610

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OL2625968W

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Traces the struggle for supremacy in Central Asia between the Soviet Union and Great Britain.

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"You could smell them coming, it was said, even before you heard the thunder of their hooves."
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