Bayonets to Lhasa: Francis Younghusband and the British Invasion of Tibet by Peter Fleming, Peter Fleming
Bayonets to Lhasa: Francis Younghusband and the British Invasion of Tibet

Peter Fleming, Peter Fleming

Bayonets to Lhasa: Francis Younghusband and the British Invasion of Tibet

Peter Fleming, Peter Fleming

308 pages first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous mysterious slow-paced
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The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Planned by Lord Curzon as a strategic move in the Great Game, the incursion was in fact ill-conceived and inspired by only the weakest of motivations...

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