Trespassers on the Roof of the World
Trespassers on the Roof of the World

Author: Peter Hopkirk

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1848547269

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No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval Buddhist kingdom by inquisitive Western travellers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the race to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital. This epic, often harrowing tale, which ends with the Chinese invasion of 1950, draws on a colourful cast of gatecrashers from nine different countries. Among them were adventurous young officers on Great Game missions, explorers and mountaineers, mystics and missionaries. All took their lives in their hands, including three intrepid women. Some were never to return.

Quest for Kim
Quest for Kim

Author: Peter Hopkirk

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1848547277

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This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to see how much of it remains. To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But Kim is different. For much of this Great Game classic was inspired by actual people and places, thus blurring the line between the real and the imaginary. Less a travel book than a literary detective story, this is the intriguing story of Peter Hopkirk's quest for Kim and a host of other shadowy figures.

Like Hidden Fire
Like Hidden Fire

Author: Peter Hopkirk

Publisher: Kodansha

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13:

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A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD. An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter Hopkirkskillfully reconstructs the Kaiser's bold plan and describes the exploits of the secret agents on both sides-disguised variously as archaeologists, traders, and circus performers-as they sought to foment or foil the uprising and determine the outcome of World War I.

On Secret Service East of Constantinople
On Secret Service East of Constantinople

Author: Peter Hopkirk

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1848546335

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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.

Mission to Tashkent
Mission to Tashkent

Author: F.M. Bailey

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

Published: 2002-08-08

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0192803875

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Accused by Moscow of being a British master-spy, Colonel F.M. Bailey recounts the 16-month game of cat-and-mouse he played with the Bolshevik secret police. At one point, with a false identity, he joined the ranks of the latter, who unsuspectingly sent him to Bokhara to arrest himself.

Setting the East Ablaze
Setting the East Ablaze

Author: Peter Hopkirk

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1848547250

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'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy undeclared war followed. Among the players in this new Great Game were British spies, Communist revolutionaries, Muslim visionaries and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.

The Trespasser
The Trespasser

Author: Tana French

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0670026336

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While Detective Antoinette Conway and her partner Stephen Moran work a seemingly routine investigation of a lovers' quarrel gone bad, they discover the case isn't as by-the-numbers as they thought.

Quest for Kim
Quest for Kim

Author: Peter Hopkirk

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780472086344

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Two authors' passion for India and the Great Game

Setting the East Ablaze
Setting the East Ablaze

Author: Peter Hopkirk

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780192851666

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As the European revolution failed to materialize, Lenin decreed, Let us turn our faces towards Asia. The East will help us to conquer the West.'

Younghusband
Younghusband

Author: Patrick French

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1101973358

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Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru, and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached free love to his followers. Patrick French’s award-winning biography traces the unpredictable life of the maverick with the “damned rum name,” who single-handedly led the 190 British invasion of Tibet, discovered a new route from China to India, organized the first expeditions up Mount Everest and attempted to start a new world religion. Following in Younghusband’s footsteps, from Calcutta to the snows of the Himalayas, French pieces together the story of a man who embodies all the romance and folly of Britain’s lost imperial dream.