The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia

Contents
Maps
Illustrations
Foreword: The New Great Game
Acknowledgements
	Prologue
	THE BEGINNINGS
	1 The Yellow Peril
	2 Napoleonic Nightmare
	3 Rehearsal for the Great Game
	4 The Russian Bogy
	5 All Roads Lead to India
	6 The First of the Russian Players
	7 A Strange Tale of Two Dogs
	8 Death on the Oxus
	9 The Barometer Falls
	THE MIDDLE YEARS
	10 ‘The Great Game
	11 Enter ‘Bokhara’ Burnes
	12 The Greatest Fortress in the World
	13 The Mysterious Vitkevich
	14 Hero of Herat
	15 The Kingmakers
	16 The Race for Khiva
	17 The Freeing of the Slaves
	18 Night of the Long Knives
	19 Catastrophe
	20 Massacre in the Passes
	21 The Last Hours of Conolly and Stoddart
	22 Half-time
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	THE CLIMACTIC YEARS
	23 The Great Russian Advance Begins
	24 Lion of Tashkent
	25 Spies Along the Silk Road
	26 The Feel of Cold Steel Across His Throat
	27 ‘A Physician from the North’
	28 Captain Burnaby’s Ride to Khiva
	29 Bloodbath at the Bala Hissar
	30 The Last Stand of the Turcomans
	31 To the Brink of War
	32 The Railway Race to the East
	33 Where Three Empires Meet
	34 Flashpoint in the High Pamirs
	35 The Race for Chitral
	36 The Beginning of the End
	37 End-game
	Bibliography
	Index