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Tables of Contents for The Great Game
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Maps
xi
2
Illustrations
xiii
2
Foreword
xv
4
Acknowledgements
xix
Prologue
1
8
THE BEGINNINGS
9
112
1. The Yellow Peril
11
13
2. Napoleonic Nightmare
24
14
3. Rehearsal for the Great Game
38
19
4. The Russian Bogy
57
12
5. All Roads Lead to India
69
8
6. The First of the Russian Players
77
12
7. A Strange Tale of Two Dogs
89
10
8. Death on the Oxus
99
10
9. The Barometer Falls
109
12
THE MIDDLE YEARS
121
172
10. `The Great Game'
123
12
11. Enter `Bokhara' Burnes
135
18
12. The Greatest Fortress in the World
153
12
13. The Mysterious Vitkevich
165
10
14. Hero of Herat
175
13
15. The Kingmakers
188
14
16. The Race for Khiva
202
11
17. The Freeing of the Slaves
213
17
18. Night of the Long Knives
230
13
19. Catastrophe
243
14
20. Massacre in the Passes
257
13
21. The Last Hours of Conolly and Stoddart
270
11
22. Half-time
281
12
THE CLIMACTIC YEARS
293
234
23. The Great Russian Advance Begins
295
11
24. Lion of Tashkent
306
15
25. Spies Along the Silk Road
321
18
26. The Feel of Cold Steel Across His Throat
339
16
27. `A Physician from the North'
355
10
28. Captain Burnaby's Ride to Khiva
365
19
29. Bloodbath at the Bala Hissar
384
18
30. The Last Stand of the Turcomans
402
16
31. To the Brink of War
418
12
32. The Railway Race to the East
430
17
33. Where Three Empires Meet
447
18
34. Flashpoint in the High Pamirs
465
18
35. The Race for Chitral
483
19
36. The Beginning of the End
502
11
37. End-game
513
14
Bibliography
527
16
Index
543