Mission to Tashkent
In this remarkable book Colonel F.M. Bailey, the last true player of the Great Game, tells of the perilous game of cat-and-mouse, lasting sixteen months, which he played with the Bolshevik secret police, the dreaded Cheka.
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314 p. illustrations 20 cm
9780192803870, 0192803875
1087685464
Introduction by Peter Hopkirk ; Persia to Kashgar ; Kashgar to Tashkent ; Tashkent ; Conditions in Tashkent ; Alone ; Arrested ; I Disappear ; To the Mountains ; The Bee-farm ; In Troitskoe ; Return to Tashkent ; Tashkent Again ; Local Bolshevism ; Spring Activities ; Summer Difficulties ; Back to the Mountains ; Tashkent Affairs ; To Kagan ; On to Bokhara ; Bokhara ; Plans for Departure ; In the Desert ; Across the Murghab ; Frontier Skirmish ; Safe in Meshed ; Appendix ; Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk
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Originally published: London : J. Cape, 1946