The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia PG_Gift_Guide Written with compassionate realism and

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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia PG_Gift_Guide Written with compassionate realism andTHE GREAT GAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAYS HEADLINES Peter Hopkirks spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has been hailed as essential reading with that eras legacy playing itself out today. The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams, in the blazing Kerman and Helmund