The "Great Game"

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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia 4.33 avg rating — 8,764 ratings
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Kim
Kim 3.70 avg rating — 39,386 ratings
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The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King 3.69 avg rating — 12,929 ratings
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India 3.96 avg rating — 5,057 ratings
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India 3.82 avg rating — 790 ratings
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia 3.87 avg rating — 705 ratings
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Flashman in the Great Game (Flashman Papers #5)
Flashman in the Great Game (Flashman Papers #5) 4.37 avg rating — 4,742 ratings
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The Far Pavilions
The Far Pavilions
by: M.M. Kaye
4.20 avg rating — 44,842 ratings
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The Mulberry Empire
The Mulberry Empire 3.36 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 4.35 avg rating — 4,901 ratings
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The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire and Invasion
The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire and Invasion 3.90 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History 4.06 avg rating — 1,379 ratings
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 4.19 avg rating — 8,403 ratings
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The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss 3.45 avg rating — 54,325 ratings
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Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics
Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics 3.51 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia 3.82 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899
Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899 3.82 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842
The Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace
Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace 4.13 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
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Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857
Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857 4.15 avg rating — 105 ratings
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For A Pagan Song
For A Pagan Song 3.77 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Britain and Russia in Central Asia, 1880-1907
Britain and Russia in Central Asia, 1880-1907 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Afghanistan and Central Asia
Afghanistan and Central Asia 2.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game 3.96 avg rating — 432 ratings
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This Shall Be a House of Peace
This Shall Be a House of Peace 4.09 avg rating — 80 ratings
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King of the Khyber Rifles
King of the Khyber Rifles 3.69 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Flash House
Flash House
by: Aimee Liu
3.55 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History 3.74 avg rating — 408 ratings
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America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East 3.82 avg rating — 229 ratings
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The Gilgit Game: The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1865-95
The Gilgit Game: The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1865-95
by: John Keay
4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America 3.90 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Ride to Khiva
A Ride to Khiva 3.97 avg rating — 259 ratings
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For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia 3.82 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan
The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan 3.95 avg rating — 742 ratings
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Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923
Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Empire of the Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Empire of the Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh 4.22 avg rating — 180 ratings
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A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform
Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Afghanistan: A Distant War
Afghanistan: A Distant War 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made War, Peace, and Love at the Congress of Vienna
Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made War, Peace, and Love at the Congress of Vienna 3.99 avg rating — 907 ratings
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The Devil Soldier
The Devil Soldier 3.56 avg rating — 677 ratings