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The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography. In the 19t
The Great Game
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-17 - Publisher: Lulu.com

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This spy novel is set between November 1937 and August 1938. The action moves between England, Ireland and Germany. The narrative pits a MI5 mole hunter and a G
The Small Players of the Great Game
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Pages: 281
Authors: Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-07-31 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian
The Great Game
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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 Centr
The Book at War
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A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century—both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk