Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia

Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac

704 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history politics adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game...

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