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.
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.
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 the highly prized gold explorer's medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Between 1905 and 1909 he served as a British Trade Agent - really a cover for political intelligence work - at Gyantse in southern Tibet. Later he accompanied a British punitive expedition into northern Assam as its intelligence officer, and was awarded the coveted MacGregor Medal for explorations contributing to the defence of India. During the First World War he was posted as an intelligence officer to Shushtar in Persia, and in 1918 returned to India to undertake the secret mission into Central Asia which is the subject of this book.
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Introduction by Peter Hopkirk Persia to Kashgar Kashgar to Tashkent Tashkent Conditions in Tashkent Alone Arrested I Disappear To the Mountains The Bee-farm In Troitskoe Return to Tashkent Tashkent Again Local Bolshevism Spring Activities Summer Difficulties Back to the Mountains Tashkent Affairs To Kagan On to Bokhara Bokhara Plans for Departure In the Desert Across the Murghab Frontier Skirmish Safe in Meshed Appendix Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk
Introduction by Peter Hopkirk Persia to Kashgar Kashgar to Tashkent Tashkent Conditions in Tashkent Alone Arrested I Disappear To the Mountains The Bee-farm In Troitskoe Return to Tashkent Tashkent Again Local Bolshevism Spring Activities Summer Difficulties Back to the Mountains Tashkent Affairs To Kagan On to Bokhara Bokhara Plans for Departure In the Desert Across the Murghab Frontier Skirmish Safe in Meshed Appendix Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk
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