Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Jennifer Siegel. Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia. New York: I. B. Tauris; dist. By Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. xviii, 273. $39.50. ISBN 1-85043-371-2.

This monograph begins, rather shakily, with a scene-setting chapter on the Great Game and the 1907 Agreement, which lacks depth and contains several errors of fact: the Peace of Paris of 1856 merely confirmed the provisions of the Straits Convention of 1841 as regards the closure of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to ships of war (pp. 2-3); Kimberley was never Viceroy of India (p. 9); the Anglo-French ...

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