An Endless Progression of Whirlwinds
Robert Irwin: Asian empire, 21 June 2001
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia
by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac.
Little, Brown, 646 pp., £25, January 2001,0 316 85589 8 Show More
by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac.
Little, Brown, 646 pp., £25, January 2001,
Tibet: The Great Game and Tsarist Russia
by Tatiana Shaumian.
Oxford, 223 pp., £16, October 2000,0 19 565056 5 Show More
by Tatiana Shaumian.
Oxford, 223 pp., £16, October 2000,
“... decidedly minor role in the Great Game: Josiah Harlan, a soldier of fortune who was briefly in the service of the Afghan Emir Dost Mohammed; William Woodville Rockhill, diplomat, hunter and scholar; Brooke Dolan, the leader of an ill-conceived CIA operation in the 1940s. Americans indeed receive almost as much coverage as the Russians, which is absurd. The ... ”