![]() ![]() today he is honoured for his Immense contribution to the exploration of the region. However, if Moorcroft was written off by his superiors during his lifetime. ![]() Peter Hopkirk, a former British army officer gives one of the most readable accounts of the contest in the Great Game country, stretching from Turkey's eastern borders to the edge of Ladakh, cutting across some of the world's most inhospitable mountains and deserts and territories of the fiercest tribes. The game in which there were no quarters given, that spawned many a bestseller and that was played in the periphery of the Indian subcontinent. Legends, intrigue, romance, were all woven into the game they played. Tough, ruthless, cunning and single-minded in their pursuit of power and territory for their countries - Russia and Great Britain - these remarkable men were locked in a desperate right for more than two centuries. ![]() and long before the advent of Cold Warriors the world witnessed the long war of The Great Gamers. Long before the inter-continental ballistic missile, long before the Berlin Wall. The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia ![]()
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