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A DANGEROUS NEW TWIST IN THE GREAT GAME In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin and his revolutionary comrades tried, in the period between the two world wars, to set the East ablaze with their heady new gospel of Marxism. Their dream was to "liberate" the whole of Asia, and... read more

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"Besides himself, the party included a second British officer-a monacled major named Stewart Blacker, seconded from the Indian Army's elite Corps of Guides."

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  1. Peter Hopkirk (Author)
 

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