### Review 'Brilliant' -- Patrick Leigh Fermor, Daily Telegraph 'There can be few more fascinating subjects, or few authors better qualified to write about it' -- Fitzroy Maclean, Independent 'Immensely readable and magisterially detached. A gripping and impressive narrative of adventure and war' -
Peter Hopkirk. The great game. On secret service in high Asia.
β Scribed by Albrecht Rothacher
- Book ID
- 106311470
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 49 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1610-2932
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