| 词条 | The Great Game (Peter Hopkirk book) |
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| name = The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia | title_orig = The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia | translator = | image = The Great Game.jpg | caption = | author = Peter Hopkirk | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = History | genre = | publisher = John Murray/Kodansha International | pub_date = 1990/May 15, 1992 | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = 978-1-56836-022-5 | dewey= | congress= | oclc= | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia (published as The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia in the US) is a book on the history of the region by Peter Hopkirk. DescriptionIn this work, the author relates the story of a time best described by Captain Arthur Connolly, of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, as "The Great Game". The Great Game was played between the Russian Empire and Victorian UK for supremacy in Central Asia. At stake was the preservation of India, key to the wealth of the British Empire. When play began early in the 19th century, the frontiers of the two imperial powers lay two thousand miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges; by the end, only 20 miles separated the two rivals.[1] Najibullah translationAfter the fall of Kabul to Afghan mujahideen forces in 1992, the last Soviet-backed president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Najibullah, sought refuge in the capital's UN compound. In 1996, when the Taliban took the city, they promptly seized and murdered him. However, during his time at the UN compound, he began translating The Great Game into his mother tongue Pashto, so that "They [Afghans] can see how our history has repeated itself...Only if we understand our history can we take steps to break the cycle".[2] Years later, Hopkirk was quoted as saying, "I’m not sure what became of Najibullah’s translation...I know that it found its way to India where his wife and children had been given asylum. Sadly, after that the trail goes cold.”[3] References1. ^John Stevenson, Amazon.com Review, 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia}}2. ^{{cite news |first=John F. |last=Burns | authorlink =John F. Burns|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E1D7103FF935A35753C1A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |title=A New 'Great Game'?; Afghanistan Reels Back Into View |publisher=The New York Times |date=1996-10-06 |accessdate=2010-12-19}} 3. ^{{cite news |first=Tarquin |last=Hall | authorlink =Tarquin Hall |url=http://web.mac.com/tarquinhall/iWeb/Site/Latest%20Stories/8A9F740F-7F39-4401-B7AF-6108D3EC2849.html |title=The Great Game |publisher=The Times |date=2006-04-29 |accessdate=2010-12-19}} 7 : 1992 non-fiction books|20th-century history books|Books about foreign relations of the United Kingdom|History books about India|History books about Afghanistan|History of Pakistan|Non-fiction books about The Great Game |
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