![]() ![]() Now, in the vacuum left by the disintegration of the Soviet Union, there is once again talk of Russian soldiers "dipping their toes in the Indian Ocean." ![]() When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and British India lay 2000 miles apart by the end, this distance had shrunk to twenty miles at some points. The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams, in the blazing Kerman and Helmund deserts, and through the caravan towns of the old Silk Road-both powers scrambling to control access to the riches of India and the East. ![]() The Great Game is Peter Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia. ![]()
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