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

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

Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer

648 pages • first pub 1999 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-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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