Peter Hopkirk, Author Kodansha Globe $18 (624p) ISBN 978-1-56836-022-5
Chronicles the imperial struggle for power in Central Asia between Victorian England and Czarist Russia. (May)
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Peter Hopkirk, Author Kodansha Globe $15 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56836-050-8
Hopkirk (The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia) traces international attempts at breaking Tibet's isolationism since the mid-19th century. (Apr.)
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Peter Hopkirk, Author Kodansha Globe $15 (272p) ISBN 978-1-56836-102-4
A real-life tale of espionage and adventure, Hopkirk's latest concerns Soviet attempts to sponsor communist revolution in Asia and the British secret agent who opposed them. (Jan.)
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Peter Hopkirk, Author Kodansha America $25 (431p) ISBN 978-1-56836-020-1
Expertly assembled from memoirs, diaries and secret intelligence reports of the day, Hopkirk's book recounts the attempt of Germany's Wilhelm II to harness the forces of militant Islam against Britain's imperial interests in central Asia during WW I.
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Peter Hopkirk, Author, Paul De Angelis, Editor Kodansha International (JPN) $30 (565p) ISBN 978-4-7700-1703-1
Half-mad Russian czar Paul I dispatched an invasion force to India in 1801. It was hastily recalled upon his assassination. But 70 years later a succession of ambitious czars had crushed the Muslim peoples of Central Asia, and confident St....
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