Bayonets to Lhasa: The British Invasion of Tibet [Audiobook] download free by Peter Fleming
- Listen audiobook: Bayonets to Lhasa: The British Invasion of Tibet
- Author: Peter Fleming
- Release date: 2012/2/4
- Publisher: I.B.TAURIS & CO. LTD.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781848856981
- Rating: 9.68 of 10
- Votes: 516
- Review by: Ariya Childs
- Review rating: 7.98 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/29
- Duration: 4H9M35S in 256 kbps (65.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, FLAC, AAC, MPEG4, WMA, MP3, Apple Lossless (compression CBR, ZIP, RAR, ISO)
- Total pages original book: 328
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M44S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Conceived by Lord Curzon as a strategic move in the Great Game - that colossal struggle between imperial Britain and Tsarist Russia for influence in Central Asia - the incursion was in fact ill-conceived and inspired by only the weakest of motivations. Led by the soldier, explorer and mystic, Francis Younghusband, the mission - doomed from the very beginning - became caught in political cross-fire and the distant and destructive machinations of China and Britain and ended in ignominy and disappointment for this idealistic adventurer. Peter Fleming's gripping portrayal of this curious episode and its charismatic protagonists brilliantly illuminates what is now seen as a key moment in the Great Game, the repercussions of which continue to be felt throughout the region.
- Other categories, genre or collection: British & Irish History, Political Science & Theory, Military History, International Relations, Guidebooks, Asian History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.57 USD
- Dimensions: 127x195.58x30.48mm
- Weight: 340.19g
- Printed by: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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