Friday, 12 January 2024

More on the Great Game


At last - back in the library! A secondhand hardback edition that set me back the princely sum of £7.45. What a bargain!

My copy of Peter Hopkirk’s magisterial book: The Great Game - On Secret Service in High Asia arrived this morning and so I am ready to plunge in to Pax Pamir and its head spinning subtlety and nuance filled gameplay.

The book is in pretty good condition with the dust jacket intact except for some slightly scuffed corners. It also has that ‘secondhand book from an indeterminate origin’ smell but nothing to be upset about.

The high regard in which this book is held in is best summed up by the comment on the rear of the dust jacket by no less a personage than Patrick Leigh Fermor, the famous travel writer and kidnapper of German Generals.

“The Great Game is absolutely marvellous, the best thing I’ve read for ages”.

High praise indeed!
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8 comments:

  1. Elliesdad12 January 2024 at 12:51

    A great book. I’d also strongly recommend Setting the East Ablaze too (chock full of gaming ideas and scenarios).
    Cheers,
    Geoff

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  2. David Crook12 January 2024 at 13:33

    Hi Geoff (aka Elliesdad),

    Funny you should mention that…. :-)

    All the best,

    DC

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  3. Steve J.12 January 2024 at 20:14

    Oh dear, I see he has written some other very interesting books too. The purchase list has just grown again... ;)!

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  4. nundanket12 January 2024 at 20:37

    I'd second what Geoff said. Trespassers on the Roof of the World is another good one (though fewer wargaming angles).

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  5. Aly Morrison13 January 2024 at 13:02

    A cracking book David…
    As are all the Hopkirk books …

    All the best. Aly

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  6. David Crook14 January 2024 at 18:21

    Hi Steve J,

    Unfortunately so has mine!

    All the best,

    DC

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  7. David Crook14 January 2024 at 18:25

    Hi nundanket,

    Dang it! There is another book to look out for….

    (Hate it when that happens….!)

    All the best,

    DC

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  8. David Crook14 January 2024 at 18:29

    Hi Aly,

    Really pleased to have gotten this (again) and it has already got the butterfly going….

    All the best,

    DC

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