Endgame : Britain, Russia, and the Final Struggle for Central Asia: v. 25 (International Library of Historical Studies)

by Paul Kennedy (Foreword), Jennifer Siegel (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $63.65

  By the early 1900s both Britain and Russia, recognising the threat from Imperial Germany, decided to stabilise their relations and replace their rivalry in Central Asia - the great game - with rapprochement. But their rivalry escalated and by 1914 the two empires were on the brink of war.