The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk

The Great Game : Paperback : Kodansha America, Inc : 9781568360225 : 1568360223 : 15 May 1994 : The Great Game was the epic stand-off between the two superpowers of the nineteenth century--Victorian Britain and Czarist Russia--for the riches of India and the East. Based on meticulous scholarship and on-the-spot research, Peter Hopkirk's immensely readable account covers the history at the core of today's geopolitics. Photos and maps.