22 December 2000 Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia By Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 659 pages, 1999, in English.A “Victorian prologue to the Cold War” is how Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac cast this intriguing account of the “Great Game,” the world’s oldest contest for imperial […]
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