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

Peter Hopkirk

The Great Game was the epic stand-off between the two superpowers of the nineteenth century--Victorian Britain and Czarist Russia--for the riches of India and the East. Based on meticulous scholarship and on-the-spot research, Peter Hopkirk's immensely readable account covers the history at the core of today's geopolitics. Photos and maps.

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) is on the U. S. Strategic Command list.