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'The stuff of a dozen adventure movies . . . everything a ripping good yarn should be'
(New York Times )'A classic example of truth outpacing fiction'
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'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.'
Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy undeclared war followed.
Among the players in this new Great Game were British spies, Communist revolutionaries, Muslim visionaries and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive.
Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Only Peter Hopkirk could find something as obscure as this subject to write about. Set in the period from mid-way trough WWI to the beginning of WWII in Uzbekistan, Kirghistan, Mongolia, Siberia and China, it's real Boys Own stuff. However, with the Russians and Chinese involved, there are some appalling descriptions of tortures and murders.
Naturally, the Brits are the heroes and inevitably their actions are 'heroic', 'daring' and 'benign'. None of this takes away from what is a great story.
Naturally, the Brits are the heroes and inevitably their actions are 'heroic', 'daring' and 'benign'. None of this takes away from what is a great story.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Borodin...a central figure in the Chinese part of the story told by Hopkirk...is even among the fascinating characters he brings before us...one of the great adventureres of the 20th century. The Jacobs book is out of print but borodins biography is worth looking into...particularly if one is interested in the history of the City of Chicago or if one has attended V alpariso University...you know...the one in Indiana
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read the other Hopkirk books about the "Great Game" I was looking forward to this "last chapter". However, it seems to be more about the aftershocks of the civil war between the Whites & Reds in the 20's & 30's than a specific imperial clash/exploration that the previous books detailed. It was nevertheless a very revealing book and I realise now that the utter barbarity of the eastern front in WW2 had its roots in the events covered by this book. So, good but not another "Great Game" book.
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Photocopy I think
This item is obviously a photocopy - I trust it has not been dispatched by Amazon itself. Two photocopies out of three lately. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mark Lindesay
The Great Game Ct'd
A nice followup read to "The Great Game" (also by Hopkirk), this book details the efforts between the World Wars by the Soviet Union to spread Marxism to the east. Read more
Published on 30 April 1999
Another gem from Hopkirk
The man who gave us "The Great Game" now takes us 20 or so years forward, to the era after the Russian Revolution when Lenin send his followers into Asia to spread his... Read more
Published on 20 Feb 1999
Excellent - a great read
Hopkirk is a wonferful writer who here entertainingly weaves together the stories of a variety of fascinating British, Russian and Central Asian adventurers and revolutionaries. Read more
Published on 4 May 1998
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