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The clash of empires in Central Asia
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THE GREAT GAME
The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By Peter Hopkirk
Kodansha, 565 pp., illustrated, $30
Had the Soviets perused the annals of the First Afghan War
(1839-42), they might never have embarked on their ill-starred thrust
southward. Most readers know The Great Game, that 19th-century
imperial struggle between Britain and Russia over Central Asia, from
the pages of Kipling's "Kim." Yet Kipling didn't coin the phrase; it
was first used by Arthur Connolly, an intrepid British officer
beheaded with his fellow officer Charles Stoddart for annoying the
bloodthirsty Emir ...
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