Written when Russia’s march into Central Asia was watched anxiously from British India, this history covers the lands of Russian Turkestan from the Bactrians, Parthians and Huns through the Arab invasions under Kutayba ibn Muslim and the Abbasid caliphs, down to the Russian campaigns against the khanates and the Tekke Turkomans.
A detailed account of a region rarely covered in English, written with the Great Game in full view. Download the free EPUB.