![]() ![]() In 1996, when the Taliban took the city, they promptly seized and murdered him. Najibullah translation Īfter the fall of Kabul to Afghan mujahideen forces in 1992, the last Soviet-backed president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Najibullah, sought refuge in the capital's UN compound. When play began early in the 19th century, the frontiers of the two imperial powers lay two thousand miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges by the end, only 20 miles separated the two rivals. At stake was the preservation of India, key to the wealth of the British Empire. The Great Game was played between the Russian Empire and British Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. ![]() In this work, the author relates the story of a time best described by Captain Arthur Connolly, of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, as " The Great Game". The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia (US title The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia is a book by Peter Hopkirk on " the Great Game", a series of conflicts in the 1800s between the UK and Russian powers to control Central Asia. ![]()
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