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On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
Peter Hopkirk
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Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim. Here, told in epic detail and for the first time, is the true story behind John Buchan's classic wartime thriller Greenmantle, recounted through the adventures and misadventures of the secret agents and others who took part in it. It is an ... Read more
Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim. Here, told in epic detail and for the first time, is the true story behind John Buchan's classic wartime thriller Greenmantle, recounted through the adventures and misadventures of the secret agents and others who took part in it. It is an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Murray
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719564512
SKU
V9780719564512
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99-50
About Peter Hopkirk
Peter Hopkirk travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set: Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, Russia, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He worked as an ITN reporter, the New York correspondent of the old Daily Express, and - for twenty years - on The Times. No stranger to misadventure, he was twice held in secret ... Read more
Reviews for On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
'Recreates with much verve and brilliance, the clandestine attempts by Britain's imperial rivals to subvert the British Empire in India'
Guardian
'Tells with great fluency, authority and narrative skill . . . a story which no single book has told before'
Sunday Telegraph
Guardian
'Tells with great fluency, authority and narrative skill . . . a story which no single book has told before'
Sunday Telegraph