Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for ... Amazon.com Review: Throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, the Russian and British Empires played out a chess game of diplomacy, espionage, and military thrusts into Central Asia to protect their expanding interests. When play began, the [... more]
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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East Intrusion in the Holy Land: Although Meyer and Brysac don't tell why Americans learn so disastrously little from history, they've made some of the history itself wonderfully accessible. Now they do that for the modern history of the Middle East, whose & [... more]
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