An Endless Progression of Whirlwinds
Robert Irwin: Asian empire, 21 June 2001
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia
by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac.
Little, Brown, 646 pp., £25, January 2001,0 316 85589 8 Show More
by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac.
Little, Brown, 646 pp., £25, January 2001,
Tibet: The Great Game and Tsarist Russia
by Tatiana Shaumian.
Oxford, 223 pp., £16, October 2000,0 19 565056 5 Show More
by Tatiana Shaumian.
Oxford, 223 pp., £16, October 2000,
“... the subduing of the Slavic sub-humans, and returned to this topic again and again in conversation. Tatiana Shaumian’s Tibet: The Great Game and Tsarist Russia is stronger on Russian aims and strategies than Tournament of Shadows, but has problems of its own. Shaumian’s book reads more like a calendar of state papers ... ”
