Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely over many years in the regions where his six books are set --- Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran and Eastern Turkey. Before turning full-time author, he was an ITN reporter and newscaster for two years, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and worked for nearly twenty years on The Times; five as its chief reporter, and latterly as Middle and Far East specialist. In the 1950s he edited the West African news magazine Drum, sister paper to its legendary South African namesake. Before entering Fleet Street he served as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles --- in the same battalion as Lance Corporal Idi Amin, later to emerge as the Ugandan tyrant. No stranger to misadventure, Hopkirk has twice been held in secret-police cells --- in Cuba and the Middle East --- and also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages. In 1999 he was awarded the Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal for his writing and travels by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized in Kipling's Kim.
When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India.
This classic book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horse-traders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. The violent repercussions of the Great Game are still convulsing Central Asia today.
發表於2024-05-18
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History is supposed to be boring, it all depends who's telling the story. Peter Hopkirk is definitely one of the best narrators of history.
評分 評分這一版的副標題被改成瞭The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia,用瞭美亞的試讀確認是同一本書後購入,隻要11塊半。代價就是印刷質量,活脫脫一盜版書,居然字號偶有參差不齊,地圖也不是很清晰,不過並不妨礙閱讀。 作者基本上是站在英國的視角講故事,因為有很多二手材料...
評分正如書中所說:他們對自己的事業篤信不疑,在那個時代都懷有極高的帝國榮譽感、問心無愧的愛國主義精神和堅定不渝的基督教文明優越感。19世紀的歐洲人,看待中亞地區應該是殘暴的可汗,野蠻的村民,沒有納入文明世界的範圍,被占領那是必須的。 書中講述瞭19世紀英俄兩國圍繞...
評分這一版的副標題被改成瞭The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia,用瞭美亞的試讀確認是同一本書後購入,隻要11塊半。代價就是印刷質量,活脫脫一盜版書,居然字號偶有參差不齊,地圖也不是很清晰,不過並不妨礙閱讀。 作者基本上是站在英國的視角講故事,因為有很多二手材料...
圖書標籤: 中亞 曆史 近代史 geopolitics 國際政治 英國 歷史 地緣政治
A galloping read.....
評分書是好書,佩服作者吊人胃口的能力,但多餘的話也是有點多,而且不看作者都知道是個英國人也寫的。
評分藉當年不同人物的冒險事蹟(為數不少二十齣頭建功立業,三十多被砍死~)講述中亞這段英俄博弈歷史,一旦開始,很難放下的書。
評分俄國&奧圖曼:辣雞遊戲毀我人生,直接刪號,再玩砍手www 英國:不是很懂你們二次元,次は何をしますか?
評分書是好書,佩服作者吊人胃口的能力,但多餘的話也是有點多,而且不看作者都知道是個英國人也寫的。
The Great Game 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載