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Noack calls it a "Second Tournament of Shadows" over the territory composing the border of British India, China, the Soviet Union and Japanese Manchuria. To Britain, the Germans initially appeared to be a secret Soviet ally. In 1933-1934 it "ended with Mongolia, Soviet Central Asia, Tannu-Tuva and Xinjiang isolated from non-Soviet influence." Beginning with the soldiers and propagandists of the Victorian era, Tournament of Shadows chronicles nearly two centuries of conflict in the Eurasian heartland, conflict that has spawned wars in Afghanistan, the invasion of Tibet, and economic scrambles for control of Caspian oil. $12.29 5 Used from $8.99 7 New from $12.29 She's been a pawn for too long. It's time to take control of the game… The first female magic user to reach adulthood in England for centuries, Seraphina Winyard is viewed as a freakish chattel by some…and by others as a danger that must be erased from history. This largely secretive struggle, popularly known as "the Great Game," is the topic of Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1999, $35), by former New York Times editorial writer Karl E. Meyer and his collaborator, Shareen Blair Brysac.
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Tournament of Shadows Series by Tilly Wallace Browse © 2024 Goodreads, Inc. Opening Gambit (Tournament of Shadows, #1), A Dangerous Ruse (Tournament of Shadows, #2), Shadow Schemes (Tournament of Shadows, #3), and Feint and Doub. Kindle $16.99 Rate this book Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac 3.87 685 ratings61 reviews The Tournament of Shadows was the Russian name for the contest the British called the Great Game: the clandestine struggle among colonial empires for control of the central Asian heartland. It was played on a field that stretched from the Indian Himalayas to the trackless wastes of the Takla Makhan Desert and from the marches of Tibet to the. The Second Tournament of Shadows and British Invasion Scares in Central Asia, 1919-1933 December 14, 2020 By David Noack During the 19 th century, Britain and Russia vied for influence in the territories between British India in the south and the Russian-controlled Kazakh steppe to the north.
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On one level are stories of the soldiers, scholars, and spies who ventured during the last two centuries into the rugged mountainous territory, from Iran to Tibet, that made up the nebulous border between the Russian and British empires. They were serving either Britain or Russia -- or were believed to be. Beginning with the soldiers and propagandists of the Victorian era, Tournament of Shadows chronicles nearly two centuries of conflict in the Eurasian heartland, conflict that has spawned wars in.
From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2015-08-21 16:36:54.380767 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1135701 Boxid_2 CH1152514 City Washington, D.C. Donor bwb External-identifier
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999. 646 pp. $35 Tournament of Shadows is the culmination of a five-year research and writing effort in which the authors made use of some newly declassified government documents -- for example the Nazi SS expedition to Lhasa in 1938-1939, and the efforts of the Russian mystic and artist Nicholas Roerich to locate a Buddhist Utopia for New Dealer Henry Wallace.
