Full name: On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Great Game and the Great War

Also published as: Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire

Author: Peter Hopkirk Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780719564512 9781568361277 0719564514 1568361270

Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim. Here, told in epic detail and for the first time, is the true story behind John Buchan's classic wartime thriller Greenmantle, recounted through the adventures and misadventures of the secret agents and others who took part in it. It is an ominously topical tale today in view of the continuing turmoil in this volatile region where the Great Game has never really ceased. Similar books: Setting the East Ablaze by Peter Hopkirk The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk Quest for Kim by Peter Hopkirk Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw Washington's Immortals by Patrick K. O'Donnell American Gun by Chris Kyle No Way Out by Mitch Weiss Swords and Swordsmen by Mike Loades Dress in Anglo-Saxon England by Gale R. Owen-Crocker Season of the Witch by David Talbot Almost a Miracle by John Ferling