Mission To Tashkent - Folio Society edition

Mission To Tashkent

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Mission To Tashkent - Folio Society edition
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Mission To Tashkent

Lt.Col. F.M.Bailey

Edition year 1999
Binding Buckram
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 269
Dimensions 25 × 16.8 cm

Edition details

Mission to Tashkent by Lt.Col. F.M.Bailey. Introduction and epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. 17 bound in pages of monochrome photos. Two maps. Quarter bound in maroon buckram with paper sides printed with a facsimile of Bailey's passport. Maroon slipcase and endpapers. 25x16.8cm. 269pp

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F. M. Bailey's Mission to Tashkent recounts a British intelligence mission into Central Asia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. Entering a region of shifting allegiances and Bolshevik suspicion, Bailey must gather information while concealing his movements and avoiding arrest. Disguise, local contacts and careful improvisation become essential to survival. His account combines the suspense of an espionage narrative with firsthand observation of a turbulent political world, revealing the uncertainty behind imperial intelligence work when old systems of authority had collapsed and new ones were still being established.

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