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Mission to Tashkent
F.m. Bailey
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Description for Mission to Tashkent
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BG; FHD; HBJD; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 336.
'one of the best books about secret intelligence work ever written' Peter Hopkirk. Colonel F. M. Bailey, whose extraordinary adventures are told here, was long accused by Moscow of being a British master-spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. As a result, he enjoyed many years after his death an almost legendary reputation there - that of half-hero, half-villain. In this remarkable book he tells of the perilous game of cat-and-mouse, lasting sixteen months, which he played with the Bolshevik secret police, the dreaded Cheka. At one point, using a false identity, he actually ... Read more
'one of the best books about secret intelligence work ever written' Peter Hopkirk. Colonel F. M. Bailey, whose extraordinary adventures are told here, was long accused by Moscow of being a British master-spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. As a result, he enjoyed many years after his death an almost legendary reputation there - that of half-hero, half-villain. In this remarkable book he tells of the perilous game of cat-and-mouse, lasting sixteen months, which he played with the Bolshevik secret police, the dreaded Cheka. At one point, using a false identity, he actually ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192803870
SKU
V9780192803870
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About F.m. Bailey
Frederick Bailey was a British explorer and secret agent, considered by many to be the last true player in the Great Game. In 1904, as a Tibetan-speaking subaltern, he had ridden into the forbidden city of Lhasa as a member of a team to investigate reports of a Russian presence there. Later, his travels in Tibet and China earned him ... Read more
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