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On Secret Service East of Constantinople

The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire

Author: Peter Hopkirk   Series: Not a

On Secret Service East of Constantinople
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'Hopkirk has made the extraordinary field of Central-Asian espionage his own ... an enthralling story' Observer

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'Hopkirk has made the extraordinary field of Central-Asian espionage his own ... an enthralling story' Observer

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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 ominously topical tale today in view of the continuing turmoil in this volatile region where the Great Game has never really ceased.

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“Recreates with much verve and brilliance, the clandestine attempts by Britain's imperial rivals to subvert the British Empire in India - GuardianTells with great fluency, authority and narrative skill . . . a story which no single book has told before - Sunday Telegraph”

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

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About the Author

Peter Hopkirk has travelled widely in the regions where his six books are set - Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India and Pakistan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey. He has 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 has twice been held in secret police cells and has also been hijacked by Arab terrorists. His works have been translated into fourteen languages.

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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 ominously topical tale today in view of the continuing turmoil in this volatile region where the Great Game has never really ceased.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Murray Press | John Murray Publishers Ltd
Published
27th March 2006
Pages
448
ISBN
9780719564512

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