The Great Game：On Secret Service in High Asia

作者: Peter Hopkirk

出版社: Hodder

出版时间: 2006-03

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780719564475

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 562页

分类: 外文原版>英文书>小说

　　For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India. This classic book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horse-traders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. The violent repercussions of the Great Game are still convulsing Central Asia today. 　　Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.

Part 1 The beginnings: the yellow peril

Napoleonic nightmare

rehearsal for the great game

the Russian boy

all roads lead to India

the first of the Russian players

death on the Oxus

the barometer falls.

Part 2 The middle years: "the Great Game"

enter "Bokhara" Burnes

the greatest fortress in the world

the mysterious Vitkevich

hero of Herat

the kingmakers

the race for Khiva

the freeing of the slaves

night of the long knives

catastrophe

massacre in the passes

the last hours of Connolly and Stoddart

half-time.

Part 3 The climatic years

the great Russian advance begins

lion of Tashkent

spies along the silk road

the feel of cold steel across his throat

"a physician from the North"

Captain Burnaby's ride to Bala Hissar

the last strand of the Turcomans

to the brink of war

the railway race to the East

where three empires meet

flashpoint in the High Pamirs

the race for Chitral

the beginning of the end

end-game.
内容简介:
　　For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India. This classic book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horse-traders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. The violent repercussions of the Great Game are still convulsing Central Asia today.
作者简介:
　　Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.
目录:
Part 1 The beginnings: the yellow peril

Napoleonic nightmare

rehearsal for the great game

the Russian boy

all roads lead to India

the first of the Russian players

death on the Oxus

the barometer falls.

Part 2 The middle years: "the Great Game"

enter "Bokhara" Burnes

the greatest fortress in the world

the mysterious Vitkevich

hero of Herat

the kingmakers

the race for Khiva

the freeing of the slaves

night of the long knives

catastrophe

massacre in the passes

the last hours of Connolly and Stoddart

half-time.

Part 3 The climatic years

the great Russian advance begins

lion of Tashkent

spies along the silk road

the feel of cold steel across his throat

"a physician from the North"

Captain Burnaby's ride to Bala Hissar

the last strand of the Turcomans

to the brink of war

the railway race to the East

where three empires meet

flashpoint in the High Pamirs

the race for Chitral

the beginning of the end

end-game.