The Great Game, as this shadowy struggle for supremacy in Central Asia came to be known, was to last for most of the nineteenth century, and only ended with the Russian Revolution in 1917. It was a secret war, fought largely by brave and resourceful individuals, and its battlefields were the passes

The Great Game, as this shadowy struggle for supremacy in Central Asia came to be known, was to last for most of the nineteenth century, and only ended with the Russian Revolution in 1917. It was a secret war, fought largely by brave and resourceful individuals, and its battlefields were the passes, deserts and glaciers of the Himalayas, the Pamirs and the Hindu Kush.