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*[https://archive.org/details/defenceindiaast00macggoog ''The Defence of India: a Strategical Study''] by Major-General Sir C M Macgregor Quartermaster General of India 1884 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/defenceofindia00coll "The Defence of India"] by Lieut.-General Sir Edwin Collen ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society'' March 1906. Archive.org
*''The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia'' by Peter Hopkirk 1992. [https://archive.org/details/greatgame00pete Book File 1]. [https://archive.org/details/greatgamestruggl00hopk Book File 2] Archive.org Lending Library. Published in the UK with title ''The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia''. “The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia… When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and British India lay 2000 miles apart; by the end, this distance had shrunk to twenty miles at some points.”:[https://archive.org/details/likehiddenfirepl00hopk ''Like Hidden Fire : the Plot to bring down the British Empire''] by Peter Hopkirk 1994 Archive.org Lending Library. Published in the UK with title ''On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Great Game and the Great War''. WW1 period.
:[https://archive.org/details/settingeastablaz00pete ''Setting the East Ablaze : Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia''] by Peter Hopkirk 1985 Archive.org Lending Library. 1920s-1930s.
: Peter Hopkirk was with ''The Times'' of London for nineteen years, as chief reporter and Middle and Far East specialist.
