A nasty old person from Persia From: The Spectator | Date: March 8, 2003| Author: | Copyright Spectator Mar 8, 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

PERSIA IN THE GREAT GAME by Anthony Wynn John Murray, L25, pp. 346, ISBN 0719564077

I have to register a strong complaint about the misleading and opportunistic title of this book; it is not about `the Great Game' as the phrase is usually understood. Various interesting and valuable attempts, such as the studies by Peter Hopkirk, have made the case that the British/Russian rivalry for control over Central Asia not only continued into the Soviet era, but is plausibly still going on. But no one will expect a book with this title to be about 20th-century Iran. Nor is it as general as the title ...

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