On Secret Service East of Constantinople
the plot to bring down the british empire
$28.80
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2006
Summary
On Secret Service: The Great Game East of Constantinople
Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim.
Here, told in epic detail and for the first time, is the true story behind John …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719564512 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719564514 |
| Author: | Peter Hopkirk |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 327g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 134mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Not a |
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Critics Review
Recreates with much verve and brilliance, the clandestine attempts by Britain’s imperial rivals to subvert the British Empire in India - Guardian
Tells with great fluency, authority and narrative skill … a story which no single book has told before - Sunday TelegraphAbout The Author
Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.
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