Hunted through Central Asia
Subtitle: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police
Contributors: Peter Hopkirk (Introduction)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 7, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780192803689
First sentence: ONE evening in Tashkend, about the end of August 1918, as I was sitting in my study quietly filling cartridges for an anticipated day's snipe-shooting, there pulled up at the steps of the house a smart carriage drawn by a splendid pair of bays.