The Settlement of Iran's Eastern Borderlands and the Creation of Afghanistan
by
Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian empire. The Great Game itself has been written about extensively, but never from a Persian angle and from the point of view of the local...