Persia in the Great Game

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Persia in the Great Game is written by Antony Wynn and published by John Murray Pubs Limited. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0719564158 (ISBN 10) and 9780719564154 (ISBN 13).

Caught between Russia and British India. Persia was a powerless pawn in the Great Game. Sykes, a bluff, tough soldier-scholar, was sent by Army Intelligence to explore its wild, unknown eastern border country and to set up a network of informants to keep an eye on Russian moves. He bugged a Russian consulate and faced down their attempt to annex the whole of north-east Persia. In the First World War his enemy was Wassmuss, the German Lawrence'. Sykes had a deep respect for Persia and her culture. The story of his twenty-five years there gives an insight into Persia that shows why modern Iran has such edgy relations with the outside world.