Years later, Hopkirk was quoted as saying, "I’m not sure what became of Najibullah’s translation.I know that it found its way to India where his wife and children had been given asylum. However, during his time at the UN compound, he began translating The Great Game into his mother tongue Pashto, so that "They can see how our history has repeated itself.Only if we understand our history can we take steps to break the cycle". In 1996, when the Taliban took the city, they promptly seized and murdered him. THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY’S HEADLINES Peter Hopkirk’s spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era’s legacy playing itself out today. 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. For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of.
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