The Great Game：On Secret Service in High Asia
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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